<div dir="ltr">Hey Silvia,<div><br></div><div>John is compiling thoughts from the team at JW Player. Overall, we're big fans of VTT and are using it for applications like preview thumbnails and advertising breaks. </div><div><br></div><div>Just ran across this report from Encoding.com that stated a jump in VTT captions market share (see page 11).</div><div><br></div><div>- Jeroen</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 5:03 AM, Silvia Pfeiffer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com" target="_blank">silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi everyone,<br>
<br>
I am collecting opinions about the need for better support of WebVTT<br>
in browsers. Please speak up for or against it.<br>
<br>
This is on the background of getting WebVTT to become a W3C<br>
recommendation, which is what we are working on in the Timed Text<br>
Working Group (TTWG) right now.<br>
<br>
In my experience, having a spec at recommendation status is a key<br>
motivator to get browsers to implement features interoperably. Basic<br>
support is in all browsers, but interoperability is so poor that it's<br>
basically unusable for normal Web publishing.<br>
<br>
I'd like to hear from browsers if a stable published specification of<br>
WebVTT would encourage them to implement support.<br>
<br>
I'd like to hear from video player developers if they would drop their<br>
polyfills if browsers supported WebVTT in its completeness. (Browsers<br>
want to know this also.)<br>
<br>
And I'd like to hear from video publishers if native WebVTT support<br>
would encourage them to publish more captions.<br>
<br>
If you have any opinion, please reply for yourself and/or your<br>
company. I'm collecting feedback for the TTWG mailing list.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Silvia.<br>
<br>
<br>
P.S. The WebVTT version in preparation for the standards track can be<br>
inspected at <a href="https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/w3c/webvtt/blob/gh-pages/archives/2018-04-15/Overview.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://htmlpreview.github.io/<wbr>?https://github.com/w3c/<wbr>webvtt/blob/gh-pages/archives/<wbr>2018-04-15/Overview.html</a><br>
(some links won't work because it's rendered through htmlpreview).<br>
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