[webkit-dev] Extending WebVTT Implementation

[Maciej Stachowiak]

I support this feature addition.

 - Maciej

On Feb 21, 2013, at 10:12 AM, Victor Carbune <vcarbune at chromium.org> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> This is a heads-up that we are starting to extend WebVTT with features
> included in the unofficial draft "WebVTT Extension: Regions for
> rendering cue groups" [1]. The master bug is here [2].
> 
> The main use cases and necessities that require these features to be
> present in WebVTT and WebKit are due to several FCC regulations that
> can't be satisfied using the current WebVTT features [3].
> 
> For those of you interested, besides the mandatory requirements,
> through the addition of the region concept as rendering area for
> multiple cues, the extension allows other features highly desired by
> the captions community, as described in [4].
> 
> Kind regards,
> Victor
> 
> [1] https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/text-tracks/raw-file/default/608toVTT/region.html
> [2] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109570
> [3] http://dev.w3.org/html5/webvtt/
> [4] https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/text-tracks/raw-file/default/608toVTT/region.html#the-region-concept
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