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<b><a class="bz_bug_link
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title="NEW - captions tracks showing by default"
href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147951#c1">Comment # 1</a>
on <a class="bz_bug_link
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title="NEW - captions tracks showing by default"
href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147951">bug 147951</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:thefork@gmail.com" title="thefork@gmail.com">thefork@gmail.com</a>
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<pre>The default behavior of "Auto (Recommended)" is not a good default. The setting conflicts with video player wrappers which provide an additional caption engine. The native captions are then stuck on (by default) and impossible to disable since the native controls aren't available.
The prescriptive nature of the default setting doesn't integrate well with real-world video players and caption implementations. Firefox just started supporting webvtt captions on the native player very recently, and users with the Firefox ESR build still don't have native captions, so a player is still necessary to provide captions across common browsers.
Also, the "closed" part of "closed captions" means users are to request captions during playback and the captions shouldn't be on by default (it's an unexpected behavior). That's how captions work on televisions and other browsers.</pre>
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