- From: Dave Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 16:20:56 -0800
- To: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>, Sean Hayes <Sean.Hayes@microsoft.com>
- Cc: Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>, "public-tt@w3.org" <public-tt@w3.org>
At 10:32 +1100 4/12/08, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: >If we really wanted to specify a "select"-statement, we need a >different approach (I think that is what Dave Singer also proposed). >Note that I am not proposing such - I much prefer the idea of having >different files for alternative content. Indeed, Sylvia has it. I wasn't proposing it either, rather opposing the idea that one should infer something is a choice from the way it is labelled. If a choice is to be made, it should be explicitly labelled "please make a choice here", whether that is at the file level (as currently in the spec.) or within the file (using some kind of selector construct). I feel that dfxp is cleaning matters up by making it possible to label multi-lingual content correctly. This will make it easier to index, convert (e.g. text-to-speech), make accessible perhaps, and possibly even present as text. This is all good. Let's not muddy 'a single session that switches between multiple languages' with 'multiple sessions representing different language versions of the same content' without explicitly designing the latter. -- David Singer Multimedia Standards, Apple Inc.
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