[foms] WebVTT implementation in browsers

[Harald Alvestrand]

Not relevant to WebVTT, but to the idea of using advancement as a tool to
get browsers to conform....

> In my experience, having a spec at recommendation status is a key
> motivator to get browsers to implement features interoperably.

My experience has been close to the opposite - with WebRTC, customer pull
has been the essential part of getting browsers to implement features, and
that in turn has been a requirement for getting enough work done on the
specs and tests to show conformance to the specs (which does help a bit
towards pushing browsers to conform), and this in turn is a requirement for
advancing along the standards track.



On Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 4:03 AM, Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I am collecting opinions about the need for better support of WebVTT
> in browsers. Please speak up for or against it.
>
> This is on the background of getting WebVTT to become a W3C
> recommendation, which is what we are working on in the Timed Text
> Working Group (TTWG) right now.
>
> In my experience, having a spec at recommendation status is a key
> motivator to get browsers to implement features interoperably. Basic
> support is in all browsers, but interoperability is so poor that it's
> basically unusable for normal Web publishing.
>
> I'd like to hear from browsers if a stable published specification of
> WebVTT would encourage them to implement support.
>
> I'd like to hear from video player developers if they would drop their
> polyfills if browsers supported WebVTT in its completeness. (Browsers
> want to know this also.)
>
> And I'd like to hear from video publishers if native WebVTT support
> would encourage them to publish more captions.
>
> If you have any opinion, please reply for yourself and/or your
> company. I'm collecting feedback for the TTWG mailing list.
>
> Cheers,
> Silvia.
>
>
> P.S. The WebVTT version in preparation for the standards track can be
> inspected at https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/w3c/
> webvtt/blob/gh-pages/archives/2018-04-15/Overview.html
> (some links won't work because it's rendered through htmlpreview).
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