Sounds good. Thanks for the heads-up.

 -r

On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 6:46 AM, Aryeh Gregor <a...@aryeh.name> wrote:
> Bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1269712
>
> Relevant change in standards:
> https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/293, also maybe
> https://www.w3.org/2015/10/28-htmlcue-minutes.html
>
> Bugs filed against other UAs:
> https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=608772
> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157311
> https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platform/issues/7426340/
>
> Invalid values for <track kind> are currently treated as "subtitles"
> by all UAs, pursuant to old specs.  This means that if we want to add
> any new values in the future, old UAs will treat them as subtitles,
> which might result in undesired behavior.  As such, several months
> ago, the spec was changed to treat invalid values as "metadata", so
> UAs will ignore unrecognized values.  No UA has yet implemented the
> new spec.
>
> The risk in implementing this is that sites might be inadvertently
> using invalid values right now and relying on the fact that they get
> treated as "subtitles".  I haven't done any telemetry or other
> analysis at this point to gauge if this will be a problem in real
> life.
>
> If there are no objections, I intend to land this change on Sunday.
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