Re: TTML similarity with SMILText profile of SMIL

TTML predates the SMILText profile and is already deployed out there.

So, imho, it doesn't make sense to stop TTML at this point.

Philippe

On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 12:18 -0400, w3c.fan@deadnet.endjunk.com wrote:
> To whom it may concern.
> The recent language TTML tries to provide a format for text inside a
> multimedia environment, especially for subtitles. This is however
> already achieved by the SMILText profile of the SMIL specification. In
> this context, the creation of TTML is likely to be redundant, this
> will make it more complex for implementors since they will have to
> support two formats, it will also be more work to maintain two
> specifications. It may be wise to see which, if any, features of TTML
> are missing from SMILText, implement them in the SMIL language, and
> add them to the SMILText profile instead of having to maintain two
> languages which provide similar features.
> 
> Raphaƫl Hendricks
> w3c.fan@deadnet.endjunk.com
> 
> 
> 

Received on Tuesday, 5 October 2010 22:52:03 UTC