- From: Marja-Riitta Koivunen <marja@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 18:15:05 -0500
- To: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
- Cc: asgilman@access.digex.net
The definitions of the system-captions and system-overdub-or-caption flags in the SMIL spec seem to contradict each other although their definition is not very clear. To solve the problem, could the author use the system-captions="on" as the main flag when the user has preferred to see captions and system-overdub-or-caption="overdub" when the user has preferred to see overdubs. So the overdub-or-caption="caption" would not be used by the author at all. I think the system-captions would then function pretty much as I understand it should function (i.e. the textual captions are turned on when user sets it through the UA). The attribute name system-overdub-or-caption does not make much sense if it only tests if the user has preferred to have dubbings on. However, this would unconnect the flags from each other so that the effect of the user preferences is defined. And hopefully the name could be changed (system-overdubs?) in the next version of SMIL, if it is impossible to do it now. This would not solve the language problem though. I think in the future we would need separate flags for the caption and overdub languages. Would this make any sense? Marja
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