<div dir="auto">Hey Thomas,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Nice work! Look forward to getting that data set made available - there's not enough standardised test material available for WebVTT.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">A could of notes of feedback:</div><div dir="auto">You wrote:</div><div dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.9333px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The srclang attribute is supposed to specify one and only one language, encoded as an IETF language code. This does not match how my videos work.</span><br></div><div dir="auto"><p style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.9333px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">As mentioned previously, it is possible that the track with srclang="cs" (Czech) will be exactly the same as the one with srclang="sk" (Slovak)."</p><p style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.9333px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">That's not a Problem, because you can specify the same caption fund in multiple <track> tags.</p><p style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.9333px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></p><p style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.9333px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">You further wrote: Audio-without-video subtitles as a problem to render. That's rest: just put the audio file in a video element and it will work.</p><p style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.9333px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></p><p style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.9333px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Hot this helps.</p><p style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.9333px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Cheers,</p><p style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.9333px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Silvia.</p></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.9333px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.9333px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue., 19 Feb. 2019, 9:13 am Thomas Levine, <_@<a href="http://thomaslevine.com">thomaslevine.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Silvia Pfeiffer writes:<br>
> On Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 2:10 PM, Thomas Levine <_@<a href="http://thomaslevine.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">thomaslevine.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> > I have found the discrepancy between the draft specification and the<br>
> > actual implementation to lead to ample disappointment, so I appreciate<br>
> > any reconciliation. The main feature that I really wish would be<br>
> > implemented is karaoke display. I don't use polyfills, but I am<br>
> > rendering my WebVTT files differently to cope with the lack of karaoke<br>
> > display. I would render them with ordinary karaoke timings if that<br>
> > worked in browsers.<br>
> ><br>
> > You remind me, I still haven't gotten around to writing up the opinions<br>
> > I developed over the past year about the language settings in the WebVTT<br>
> > specification and in the HTML track tags. I have been working on a<br>
> > project with subtitles in many different languages, and the modeling of<br>
> > languages is inappropriate for my use. Once I write up these opinions,<br>
> > do you want me to post it on this issue tracker?<br>
> > <a href="https://github.com/w3c/webvtt/issues" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/w3c/webvtt/issues</a><br>
><br>
> Yes please! That's where all work for WebVTT happens now.<br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
> Silvia.<br>
<br>
Almost one year later, I have finally composed my comments. I personally<br>
try to limit my use of proprietary software, but you may copy the<br>
comments to the issue tracker.<br>
<a href="https://thomaslevine.com/scm/langrompiloj/doc/trunk/presentations/foms/README.wiki" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://thomaslevine.com/scm/langrompiloj/doc/trunk/presentations/foms/README.wiki</a><br>
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I have also added it to the FOMS 2019 position statement page.<br>
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