Re: SMIL: Authoring question

On 07/10/1998, Jon Gunderson <jongund@staff.uiuc.edu>  wrote:
>With the current SMIL standard would the author need to create two versions
>of their document, one with captions and the other without; or would the
>captioning be an add on to the original document so the user just turns it
>on or off?

assuming that you talk about text captions here: one
version is enough

the following example from the SMIL REC shows how this works,
see
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-smil/#test

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In the following example, captions are shown only if the user wants captions on. 

...
<seq>
  <par>
    <audio      src="audio.rm"/>
    <video      src="video.rm"/>
    <textstream src="stockticker.rtx"/>
    <textstream src="closed-caps.rtx" system-captions="on"/>
  </par>
</seq>
...

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The second textstream object is only shown if the "system-captions"
test attribute evaluates to "true", which is the case when the
user has requested captioning

Lloyd proposed a similar test attribute to switch audio descriptions
on and off (see my previous message)

Received on Wednesday, 7 October 1998 17:49:04 UTC