Re: Frustrations of captions video delivery

That's what is being done ... by every single content publisher.
That's an effort that a conformant browser implementation should be able to
avoid.
Also - it doesn't work for TVs where you cannot use a polyfill.


On Sat, Jan 7, 2023 at 1:05 PM Pierre-Anthony Lemieux <pal@sandflow.com>
wrote:

> What cannot be done by using a JS polyfill?
>
> -- Pierre
>
> On Fri, Jan 6, 2023 at 5:57 PM Silvia Pfeiffer
> <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I thought it would be useful to share a video of a Paramount employee
> explaining their challenges with rendering and styling of videos via
> browser technology:
> > https://youtu.be/Z0HqYQqdErE
> >
> > It's really quite frustrating to see that Web browsers are still not
> conformant with each other in how to render Cues on the Web and therefore
> content providers are still needing to build their own rendering
> technologies to not be hit with lawsuits.
> >
> > I've stopped being active around caption standards and compatibility on
> the Web about 10 years ago and I'm so sad that we haven't made much
> progress since then.
> >
> > When will browser vendors make this a priority?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Silvia.
>