{minutes} TTWG Meeting 2016-12-15

Thanks for attending today's TTWG meeting. Minutes can be found in HTML format at https://www.w3.org/2016/12/15-tt-minutes.html


If any members would like TTWG to request additional time to review the CSS 2.2 spec as requested by Bert in his email [1] please let me know by 22nd December.

[1] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-tt/2016Dec/0017.html



The minutes in text format:


   [1]W3C

      [1] http://www.w3.org/


                Timed Text Working Group Teleconference

15 Dec 2016

   See also: [2]IRC log

      [2] http://www.w3.org/2016/12/15-tt-irc


Attendees

   Present
          Nigel, Andreas, Pierre

   Regrets
          Glenn, Mike, Thierry

   Chair
          Nigel

   Scribe
          Nigel

Contents

     * [3]Topics
         1. [4]This meeting
         2. [5]F2F Meeting
         3. [6]IMSC drifting into general TTML
     * [7]Summary of Action Items
     * [8]Summary of Resolutions
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   <scribe> scribe: Nigel

This meeting

   Nigel: I think we should mention the CLDR response from Unicode
   at least.
   ... Anything else?

   group: Nothing specific

F2F Meeting

   Pierre: I suggest generating a detailed agenda for example
   pointing at the issues that we
   ... need to close.

   Nigel: That's true, we need to close issues!

   <scribe> ACTION: Nigel Generate detailed (timed) agenda for F2F
   to allow people to prepare in advance [recorded in
   [9]http://www.w3.org/2016/12/15-tt-minutes.html#action01]

      [9] http://www.w3.org/2016/12/15-tt-minutes.html#action01]

   <trackbot> Created ACTION-491 - Generate detailed (timed)
   agenda for f2f to allow people to prepare in advance [on Nigel
   Megitt - due 2016-12-22].

   Pierre: I'm happy to take a look at that for IMSC.

   Andreas: For IMSC 1.1 and also TTML1 we need to spend time on
   the line gap issue.

   Nigel: Agreed.

   Andreas: Also Safe Crop Area is something we have discussed but
   do not have anything
   ... more concrete to discuss for inclusion in IMSC 1.1, in
   London.

   Nigel: +1

   Pierre: We cannot finalise the agenda until Jan 8 when we have
   all the liaisons in hopefully.

   Nigel: True.
   ... Also we want to be able to review an updated draft of TTML2
   with a view to publishing
   ... as a CR, so the outcome of that review process at the F2F
   would be a set of small(ish) actions
   ... or a resolution to publish. So that we can have enough time
   to prepare for that we need
   ... the updated draft from Glenn by 5th Jan at the absolute
   latest.

   Pierre: I think that may not even be possible even if we have a
   draft today, but we should at
   ... least be able to close a good set of issues.

   Andreas: The product with the most urgent deadline will be the
   update to IMSC 1 so that
   ... should be taken into account when preparing our agenda.

   Nigel: So I have an action, thank you Pierre for offering to
   review/author the IMSC parts of the agenda,
   ... and I will also ping it to Glenn.

   Pierre: What I will do is finalise the IMSC parts based on the
   liaisons I have received by Jan 8,
   ... as soon as possible after Jan 8.

   Nigel: Thank you for that.

IMSC drifting into general TTML

   Nigel: Thank you Pierre for responding to the CLDR ticket. We
   got a response:

   ->
   [10]https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-tt/2016Dec/0018

   .html

     [10] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-tt/2016Dec/0018.html


   Nigel: Shervin is suggesting that a closer inspection of each
   set is necessary.

   Pierre: The folk who put the sets together did not want to miss
   anything so they erred on the
   ... side of being too broad.
   ... I can get back to them on that because for instance the
   Latin Extended A set is literally
   ... the Unicode code block that includes u+017F so instead of
   trying to finesse every
   ... character set for every country in central Europe etc. they
   just said for all Latin European
   ... countries we are going to recommend the use of any
   character within the Unicode Latin Extended A code block.
   ... That's inclusive at low cost. I think this is a response to
   Shervin, to explain this.

   Nigel: Do you want to write that response?

   Pierre: Yes, I can reply to Shervin.
   ... If their recommendation is to target each language
   independently, then that would be
   ... useful feedback for us.

   Nigel: Thank you!
   ... Anything else on IMSC?

   Pierre: Something that also applies to TTML is when features
   that are required for subtitles
   ... and captions are not supported by CSS. If features are
   required they should be in the web
   ... platform; if not they should not be in IMSC (and possibly
   TTML). I'm not sure how we do that.

   Nigel: I agree with this, and observe that if it's hard to get
   implementations of everything in
   ... specifications then the last thing you want is to add new
   features that don't get implemented,
   ... since they could hold CRs up for a long time. On the other
   hand no feature gets implemented
   ... unless it is requested/proposed first. So the first thing
   we should do is trawl the CSS
   ... issue trackers to make sure that they are recorded; getting
   them implemented is something
   ... that our members cannot necessarily do, so we do need to
   get buy-in from the CSS
   ... implementers, otherwise we will never get those features in
   CSS recommendations.

   Pierre: We should tell CSS, maybe TAG, AC etc that we have
   these requirements for the web platform.

   Andreas: We also have influence as members on other groups'
   charters.

   Nigel: Also (thank you for the reminder) we have received a
   request from Bert Bos to review
   ... CSS 2.2 CR.

   -> [11]http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS22/changes.html


     [11] http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS22/changes.html


   Nigel: Bert is asking for implementation feedback on the CR,
   but also possibly for wide
   ... review comments. Do you want to request any time for
   reviewing CSS 2.2 prior to
   ... feeding back to CSS WG?
   ... (that's a question for the group not just those present on
   this call)

   Pierre: I would support spending time in the F2F analysing
   TTML2 to work out which features
   ... need to be in CSS.

   Nigel: One thing we could do is to specify in our CR exit
   criteria that at least one implementation
   ... must be done using a mix of HTML, CSS and
   EcmaScript/JavaScript, and attempt to work
   ... out which TTML2 features would need a polyfill or something
   similar to make that happen.
   ... Then we could choose to mark those features as "at risk" so
   that, should they not satisfy
   ... the exit criteria, then we can drop them when we move to
   Proposed Recommendation
   ... without incurring a process delay.

   Pierre: I like that idea.

   Nigel: If we were to set a rule like "don't publish TTML2
   unless all features are implementable in CSS"
   ... then we would effectively be waiting forever, or it would
   seem that way, since if those
   ... features are only ever exercised by translation from TTML2
   to HTML+CSS then I think
   ... most implementers of browsers would deprioritise
   implementation of those features
   ... almost immediately on the basis of a low expected volume of
   usage.
   ... Ok we're out of time for today, thanks all. [Adjourns
   meeting]

Summary of Action Items

   [NEW] ACTION: Nigel Generate detailed (timed) agenda for F2F to
   allow people to prepare in advance [recorded in
   [12]http://www.w3.org/2016/12/15-tt-minutes.html#action01]

     [12] http://www.w3.org/2016/12/15-tt-minutes.html#action01


Summary of Resolutions

   [End of minutes]
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