[whatwg] WebVTT feedback (and some other <video> feedback that snuck in)

Philip Jägenstedt philipj at opera.com
Sat Dec 3 08:55:14 PST 2011


On Sat, 03 Dec 2011 17:47:15 +0100, Glenn Maynard <glenn at zewt.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Philip Jägenstedt  
> <philipj at opera.com>wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> That's fine as a fallback, just as with character set guessing, but a
> fallback is what it should be.

AFAICT the srclang attribute takes precedence, so it already is the  
fallback.

It's not quite clear to what is a concrete suggestion and what is  
speculation in this discussion, but it seems to me that there's no  
pressing need to have language on any finer granularity than we already  
have (file-wide).

-- 
Philip Jägenstedt
Core Developer
Opera Software



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