RE: [Fwd: Timed tracks]

If timed text were being integrated into HTML, then I think you'd have a point. In which case I'd argue that HTML+TIME is probably the most sensible starting point.

However the model seems to be having it be associated externally, like a video, audio or image format. Which, since the captions and HTML are likely authored by different people, and come from different servers, seems like the most sensible model, in such a case how the timed text is structured seems somewhat irrelevant to me.


-----Original Message-----
From: Philippe Le Hegaret [mailto:plh@w3.org] 
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 4:33 PM
To: Sean Hayes
Cc: public-tt@w3.org
Subject: RE: [Fwd: Timed tracks]

On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 15:28 +0000, Sean Hayes wrote:
> Why do you think TTML would not get deployed in web browsers. It seems no more outrageous to me than seeing SVG or MathML deployed. Especially if content starts showing up with it.

As I said, due to its lack of use of HTML and CSS. SVG and Math introduced new elements that simply weren't in HTML. TTML uses paragraphs, which already exist in HTML. In addition, both SVG and Math are using CSS, so it makes their integration with HTML easier.

Philippe

> However at the moment I'm not expecting any single format to get a blessing by HTML WG.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-tt-request@w3.org [mailto:public-tt-request@w3.org] On 
> Behalf Of Philippe Le Hegaret
> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 3:04 PM
> To: public-tt@w3.org
> Subject: [Fwd: Timed tracks]
> 
> I wanted to bring the attention of the Group to this effort.
> 
> >From one point of view, it's disappointing to see a new effort
> subtitling starting.
> 
> On the other hand, I have to say that I don't imagine at the moment 
> Timed Text being deployed in Web browsers, due to its lack of use of 
> HTML and CSS. So, this effort has more chances to get deployed rapidly 
> along with HTML5 video imho,
> 
> Philippe
> 
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
> To: public-html@w3.org
> Subject: Timed tracks
> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 04:36:29 +0000 (UTC)
> 
> FYI, I've started looking at the timed track bugs:
> 
>    http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9452
>    http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9471
> 
> Right now I'm mostly collecting use cases and drafting ideas, but I hope to have a first draft proposal integrating the suggestions in those bugs and some other material in the spec in the coming weeks. If anyone has any sample videos or still from videos showing real-world use of timed tracks in ways that demonstrate possible features I haven't considered, please let me know. So far, I and some others in the WHATWG list and on #whatwg have collected the following:
> 
>    http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Use_cases_for_timed_tracks_rendered_over_video_by_the_UA
>    
> http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Use_cases_for_API-level_access_to_timed_tr
> acks
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> 
>

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