[whatwg] WebVTT feedback (and some other <video> feedback that snuck in)
Philip Jägenstedt
philipj at opera.com
Sat Dec 3 08:38:33 PST 2011
On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 19:07:14 +0100, Glenn Maynard <glenn at zewt.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 4:03 AM, David Singer <singer at apple.com> wrote:
>
>> I guess I may be confused.
>>
>> I see two ways of rendering VTT (at least):
>>
>> 1) the UA interprets only VTT, and chooses 'suitable' fonts etc.
>>
>
> Without language metadata, this is impossible to do reliably for CJK
> text.
We're going to be doing the same script detection heuristics that we do on
web pages. Differentiating between simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese
and Japanese isn't particularly hard.
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Philip Jägenstedt
Core Developer
Opera Software
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