Re: Defining safe areas for media devices and set top boxes

Chris, we're are at cross purposes.  

Robert and I suggested that we define that the *background fill* be defined to fill the 'unsafe' area, but that the rest of CSS and so on (foreground content) be defined to be working only in the safe area.  So you would *not* get a black border under these circumstances.

Joćo seems to be saying that that is not enough, he wants general content in the unsafe area, and I wanted to confirm that, and ask 'what and why?'.


On Dec 7, 2010, at 9:17 , Chris Lilley wrote:

> On Tuesday, December 7, 2010, 4:05:24 PM, David wrote:
> 
> DS> On Dec 7, 2010, at 5:45 , Joćo Eiras wrote:
>>> Not enough at all. Content (significant or not) can very well reach the edges of screen, as in any other user agent.
> 
> 
> DS> So, to be clear, you want to be able to paint anything, not just
> DS> background, in the unsafe area?  Why, if it's unsafe?
> 
> Because its visible and you don't want it to be black.
> 
> Unsafe means 'not guaranteed to have legible text'. It does not mean 'guaranteed to have illegible text' or 'invisible'.

David Singer
Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.

Received on Tuesday, 7 December 2010 15:25:10 UTC