[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 109820] TextTrack Extension for WebVTT Regions

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109820





--- Comment #6 from Eric Carlson <eric.carlson at apple.com>  2013-02-14 08:53:26 PST ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #4)
> > (In reply to comment #3)
> > > (In reply to comment #2)
> > > > please propose to the W3C for standardization, then you may reopen this bug
> > > 
> > As noted in the master bug, there is a proposed solution [1] [2] which has had a great deal of discussion in the text community group mailing list (eg. [3]).
> 
> Thanks for pointing this out. If this information had been referenced in the bug, I would have been less likely to close it. In any case, he bug should make clear the specification status and the relative maturity of the specification. 

The specs are noted in https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109570, which is marked as blocked by this. That is what I meant by "master bug" in my comment.

> Since it appears to me that the specification for any JS API extensions is very early in the process, and not yet in any W3C spec, care should be taken to qualify this early implementation work, e.g., by noting that prefixes will be used for any experimental interface extensions.
> 

Agreed!

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