- From: Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 10:30:11 +0200
- To: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org, "Cyril Concolato" <cyril.concolato@telecom-paristech.fr>
On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 21:41:34 +0200, Cyril Concolato <cyril.concolato@telecom-paristech.fr> wrote: > Hi all, > > Has it been considered adding another method to add cues to a track? > Something like addCues(DOMString text) where the text is not only one > cue (like in the TextTrackCue ctor) but where the text would be multiple > cues as written in a WebVTT file? My use case is that I'm getting WebVTT > content from a server using XHR and I'd like to add that easily to the > track, without having to parse them myself. Ideally, I would like to > push the WebVTT content to the track a bit like the Media Source > Extension API. Another option (less ideal) would be to have a > WebVTTParser object with a parseFromString method returning a > TextTrackList (a bit like the DOMParser object). Each cue could be added > one by one. > > Comments? > > Cyril You can parse WebVTT using a dummy video+track element and then move the cues to the actual track, why is this less than ideal? -- Philip Jägenstedt Core Developer Opera Software
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