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Bug 14238 - <track> First argument of addTextTrack should be omissible, defaulting to subtitles
Summary: <track> First argument of addTextTrack should be omissible, defaulting to sub...
Status: RESOLVED LATER
Alias: None
Product: HTML.next
Classification: Unclassified
Component: default (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-09-22 09:09 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-09-14 12:13 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2011-09-22 09:09:47 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#media-elements
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#media-elements

Comment:
First argument of addTextTrack should be omissible, defaulting to subtitles

Posted from: 2001:4c28:a030:30:223:32ff:fec2:96fa by simonp@opera.com
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_8) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.21 Safari/535.2
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-10-04 01:09:13 UTC 
Why? (And why "subtitles"? Surely "metadata" is more likely to be the common case?)
Comment 2 Simon Pieters 2011-10-04 06:53:03 UTC 
My thought was just that <track> has kind="" as optional and it defaults to subtitles, so i expected the api to do the same.
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-10-20 23:34:45 UTC 
The idea here is that <track> will almost always be used for subtitles, whereas the API will likely be used for metadata as much as anything else.

I can make it default to "metadata" if you think that would be good, but I'm not sure it would. I don't have a strong opinion here.
Comment 4 Simon Pieters 2011-10-21 08:19:01 UTC 
We could start with having it required, and then in a few years see which kind is most common and revisit the issue.