[whatwg] Video, Closed Captions, and Audio Description Tracks

[Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves]

On 10/9/07, Dave Singer <singer at apple.com> wrote:
> If the delivery is streaming, or in some other way where the
> selection of tracks can be done prior to transport, then there isn't
> a bandwidth hit at all, of course.  Then the "ask this resource to
> present itself in the captioned fashion" is a reasonable way to do
> this.
>
> Alternatively, as you say, one might prefer a whole separate file
> "select this file if captions are desired".

The way I see it, the browser is working like a video player.  Modern
video players allow users to configure if they would like to see the
first subtitles track by default or not.  And if the user wishes to
turn subtitles on, off, or switch to another subtitles track (e.g.
another language) s/he right clicks the video screen and modifies the
subtitles options.  Not elegant, but it works.

-Ivo