Re: Timed tracks from Maciej Stachowiak on 2010-04-23 (public-html@w3.org from April 2010)

From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 23:16:38 -0700
To: Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com>
Cc: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, public-html@w3.org
Message-id: <C80041C6-72E2-4893-92AF-5FE8E09B7FD1@apple.com>

On Apr 22, 2010, at 11:05 PM, Philip Jägenstedt wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:23:19 +0800, Maciej Stachowiak  
> <mjs@apple.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Apr 22, 2010, at 10:20 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>>
>>
>> We probably do need the barrier in the cross-origin case, at least  
>> by default. (I could imagine letting servers expose their captions  
>> cross-origin through something like CORS).
>
> Surely they could always rendered, but any access via whatever APIs  
> we have should be protected by the cross-origin policy. This is  
> similar to <video> itself.

By "barrier" I mean "barrier to the containing page accessing the  
contents of timed text tracks". Built-in UA features should indeed be  
able to play them.

  - Maciej

Received on Friday, 23 April 2010 06:25:27 UTC