Re: Fwd: Re: Timed Text work

Whatever we come up with needs to be *way* simpler than XHTML Basic+SMIL.
There's no need for forms, images, tables, SMIL hierarchical layout,
etc, etc.

I would hope the end result looks a lot more like a stripped down version
of SVG.

Rob

On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Ivan Herman wrote:

>
> >Resent-Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 05:57:07 -0500 (EST)
> >From: Daniel Dardailler <danield@w3.org>
> >Reply-To: danield@w3.org
> >To: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
> >cc: w3t-tech@w3.org
> >Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 11:56:58 +0100
> >Subject: Re: Timed Text work
> >
> >
> > > Thanks. My personal feeling is that XHTMLBasic + SMIL should do it (SMIL
> > > has some positioning facilities, too), but we can leave that to the WG.
> > >
> > > Not that I want to get on anybody's nerve, but I still go on nagging... My
> > > reaction is purely (as usual) the comm team person reaction: how would I
> > > present this stuff to the public? Not only should we try to reuse existing
> > > modules, but we should also try to avoid adding too much to the acronym
> > > soup if we can avoid. If we spend a lot of time to the general public to
> > > explain what SMIL and XHTML are, let use those combinations explicitly,
> > > rather than having TT... Also, wouldn't it be clearer to have a slightly
> > > more general charter for a WG and let that one finalize the XHTML+SMIL
> > > module, too? The similarities are really too close...
> >
> >All good questions that should be discussed in the TT-TF forum.
>
> Ivan Herman
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