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- Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2011 03:01:57 +0000
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HTML-ISSUE-188 (generic-track-format): Text tracks in HTML should be defined in a way agnostic of the specific caption format [HTML 5 spec] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/188 Raised by: Adrian Bateman On product: HTML 5 spec Raised from https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=13637 Frank Olivier wrote: > http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/rendering.html#webvtt-cue-text-rendering-rules > > The spec contains several (normative) references to webvtt when > defining cue and track handling. These sections should be rewritten > to be generic; webvtt is one of many caption formats that could be > used in html5. The timed text track feature provides useful capabilities in HTML that do not need to be bound to one specific format. For example, IE10 PP4 implements a subset of both the W3C Recommendation TTML and the experimental community group driven format WebVTT. Both are equally appropriate formats and IE10 PP4 would be interoperable with a user agent implementing a similar profile of TTML. WebVTT could also feasibly be used as a timed text format independently from HTML5. There is therefore no reason to tie the two formats together with a mutual dependency.
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