- From: Nigel Megitt <nigel.megitt@bbc.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 12:11:14 +0000
- To: David Singer <singer@mac.com>, Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com>
- CC: Pierre-Anthony Lemieux <pal@sandflow.com>, TTWG <public-tt@w3.org>
The speed of movement in CSS is partly in our hands. We can and have contributed use cases and offered assistance in defining e.g. Test cases, and should continue to do so, if necessary by TTWG members joining CSS WG. CSS WG has been willing to respond to our requests to communicate. Nigel On 28/11/2017, 00:18, "David Singer" <singer@mac.com> wrote: > > >> On Nov 27, 2017, at 10:45 , Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com> wrote: >> >> Given that such an addition to CSS would require years to obtain in a >>REC, it is entirely impractical to use this rationale with TTML2 (and >>probably TTML3). >> > >I read this, perhaps wrongly (and if so, please correct me) that the >timed text group can, and should, invent styling mechanisms that are >different from, or absent from, CSS, because they can move faster. If >this is what you mean, I disagree in almost every respect, and in >particular, if something is needed for styling text in general, it >belongs in CSS. *Only* if the styling is caption-specific and irrelevant >in all other contexts, should the captioning language invent new styling. > >David Singer > >singer@mac.com >
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