Re: TTML2 wide review comment: styling from David Singer on 2017-10-02 (public-tt@w3.org from October 2017)

From: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2017 09:11:47 -0700
To: Andreas Tai <tai@irt.de>
Cc: Timed Text Working Group <public-tt@w3.org>, Pierre-Anthony Lemieux <pal@sandflow.com>
Message-id: <28FBDC91-5664-4B4C-A236-67FD5A3FA952@apple.com>

> On Oct 2, 2017, at 4:52 , Andreas Tai <tai@irt.de> wrote:
> 
> Especially the second point leads to a much broader discussion about the scope of web standards like HTML+CSS. I am sure that the subtitle domain would be welcoming a better integration of their requirements in CSS. This maybe a process that needs some more time and parallel developments may only be a mid-term phenomenon of the conversion process. I am convinced that next TPAC could help to speed the process with productive discussions and group agreements.
> 

I agree; I think the CSS group has shown themselves very responsive, and active in improvements. If something is needed in the way we style for any market, then let’s get that feature into the lingua franca we have, i.,e. CSS/HTML, and then it can be uniformly adopted and implemented.

David Singer
Manager, Software Standards, Apple Inc.

Received on Monday, 2 October 2017 16:12:01 UTC