Re: ISSUE-303 (<a> link element): Permit HTML-style <a> elements to contain href links [TTML2]

We had a rule for TTML1: no references to external resources. We will
remove that rule for TTML2 for images and fonts, and perhaps now
anchor/links as well.


On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Timed Text Working Group Issue Tracker <
sysbot+tracker@w3.org> wrote:

> ISSUE-303 (<a> link element): Permit HTML-style <a> elements to contain
> href links [TTML2]
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> http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/TT/tracker/issues/303
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> Raised by: Nigel Megitt
> On product: TTML2
>
> Permit <a> elements with href and target attributes only, around content
> elements or text.
>
> This appears to be the minimal useful set of attributes around a link that
> may appear in a timed context.
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> The purpose of the target is to permit the linked content to be loaded
> into an alternate context: one possible use case for this is to allow the
> linked content to be loaded into a different window or iframe without
> interrupting the flow of captions displayed against a video that's being
> watched.
>
> More concretely, this could be used for example for 'go here for more
> information' links or 'go here to vote for candidate X' links. A third
> example could be 'go here for these subtitles in language [xyz]'.
>
> I don't know if this has been raised before, but it seems so obvious that
> I'm surprised I couldn't find an issue for it - happy to be told where to
> look for it if this is a duplicate. Apologies if I'm opening a can of worms
> that everybody would rather stay closed...
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