- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:56:00 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Greg Millam wrote: > > Here is my proposal: [...] I think this proposal is a good direction to go in. However, I think it is still too early to put this in HTML5, and based on the quality of implementations so far, it will probably still be too early by the time HTML5 goes to last call in October. However, I think something similar to what you propose (which is similar, though more complex, to what Silvia proposed also) is what we should aim for once we are ready to add more features. On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Ian Fette wrote: > > However, there's a lot of uses for subtitles / captions that cannot be > met with subrip. No styling (beyond the bare basics), no karaoke > commands, no alpha, no nice handling for collisions, margins, shadow > colors, specifying encoding, etc. I disagree that we should have author-controlled styling here. While I could maybe be convinced to have something basic like colour and maybe positioning, I think it is important that we let the subtitles be under the control of the user and the user agent, as they are, for instance, on TVs. Providing a way for authors to select different voices would make sense, but if we allow arbitrary styling we are going to have all kinds of problems, like lacking the ability to take subtitles and convert them to braille without losing context, or losing the ability to trivially convert subtitles for use in other contexts like TV subtitles. (For the few authors who really want to go crazy, they can already overlap HTML onto their <video> and do whatever crazy stuff they want to do.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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