[tei-council] some questions about non-textual components and media

[Martin Holmes]

On 12-12-18 12:14 PM, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>
> On 18 Dec 2012, at 19:50, Gabriel Bodard <gabriel.bodard at kcl.ac.uk>
>   wrote:
>>
>>   I'm sure there are media
>> that don't easily fit into one of graphic, video, audio that we might
>> want to include in here as well (QTVR; Powerpoint; interactive maps;
>> embedded app; holographic projector) so let's be as generic and agnostic
>> as possible.
>
>
> ah, its HTML <embed> you want..... or is it <object>...
>
> sorry to bang on, but it does behoove us to consider _why_ the HTML5
> designers included all of <embed>, <object>, <video>, <audio> and <img>,
> not just <media>. Just worrying that they have given this some thought.
>
> I'll stop now :-}

You're absolutely right to raise these issues, and of course we have to 
consider them if we raise a ticket for this. But we're not writing an 
end-user language for rendering agents like HTML5, we're writing a 
language for describing a document. We should also try not to be too 
driven by the processing concerns. Most projects will have their own 
rendering pipelines and XSLT, and if something is just too difficult for 
you to provide a good generic rendering solution, the Stylesheets can 
simply output a link.

>
> oh, its Christmas, you'll forgive me, wont you? must I switch to <ptr target="foo.mp4" rend="transclude"/>?

Sorry indeed if I annoyed you; it wasn't my intention to tell you not to 
do what you're doing, just to suggest that I don't think it would be a 
good thing to recommend to other people when they ask how to deal with 
video and audio.

Cheers,
Martin

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