- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:19:36 +1000
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: John Foliot <foliot@wats.ca>, Shelley Powers <shelley.just@gmail.com>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, William Loughborough <wloughborough@gmail.com>, Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>, Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>, WHATWG <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Ian Hickson<ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, John Foliot wrote: >> Ian Hickson wrote: >> (And while you looking, can you also point me to the official consensus >> note that suggested that deferring a captioning solution with video to >> 'the next version' was met with approval? >> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Jun/0667.html | >> http://john.foliot.ca ) > > No such consensus exists at this time. (No consensus to the contrary > exists either.) Since one of my emails is being quoted, let me explain how I came to the conclusion that I stated in that email. In December last year there was a discussion about approaches to how to include captions with HTML5 video. The discussion included Ian posting this email: http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2008-December/017966.html In this email he stated: "I think we should eventually provide the APIs mentioned above under case 1 since they would help bridge the gap between the two types of timed text solutions, but as noted above I think we should wait until implementations are more mature before extending the API further." This to me meant that we needed to experiment with the different approaches in order to find a good means of approaching a technical solution to the captioning issues. Further, in this email (http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-July/021142.html) 6 months later in reply to a similar discussion around a proposal that Greg Millam from Google made in February, Ian says: "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." This led to me to the assumption that captions won't be part of the first "version" of HTML5. I asked for clarification of this understanding of mine of "versions" in a later email http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Jul/0142.html , which Ian explained in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Jul/0145.html . This is how I came to write the email that I wrote at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Jun/0667.html. How hard and fast is the October deadline for Last Call? I would like to get some accessibility features for video included before then! Best Regards, Silvia.
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