Windows 10: Chrome to support Windows 10’s system styling for captions in videos

In late 2018, Microsoft confirmed that Windows 10’s Edge will become a Chromium-based browser and the current version of Edge will be replaced in a future release. For users, this means that the development of Edge browser will advance faster than before and Microsoft’s active contribution to Chromium will also make other browsers (Chrome) work better on Windows devices.

Recently, we reported that Microsoft is actively contributing to the Chromium browser and the company is planning to improve the accessibility features of the Chromium-based browsers.

As the launch of Edge browser is nearing, Microsoft is contributing features back to the open-source implementation of Chromium.

In October 2018, a bug post suggested that Google should support custom styles for text captions on video and respect the system settings of Windows.

In January 2019, Google announced in a Chromium post that it plans to introduce CaptionStyle to customize the appearance of the captions/texts displayed during a video. Google had noted that Mac and Windows will use NativeTheme::GetSystemCaptionStyle() to fetch the system settings.

Today, we spotted a Chromium commit by Microsoft engineer which aims to allow Chromium-browsers to respect Windows 10’s system styling for captions in videos.

The Chromium post is titled ‘Add support for Windows system styling for captions’ and it is supposed to make the following changes:

• Add 4 new properties to CaptionStyle.
• Adds a WindowsCaptionStyle class that extends CaptionStyle and adds Windows support for webvtt caption styling.
• Adds command line flag ‘–enable-windows-caption-style’ which is needed to run platform specific code.

The post also notes that this commit follows the guidelines outlined by Google in January 2019. Microsoft, Google and contributors are also working to add support for background opacity, window opacity, and window colour.

By the looks of things, the change is basically supposed to add support for Windows 10’s custom styles for text captions in videos. In future, you can expect the captions and the other texts displayed within the video window to deliver a more native feel on Windows 10.

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Caption Styles" section in "Closed caption" setting doesn't work as intended.

Hi Eady,

We appreciate you for bringing this issue to our attention. To get a better understanding of what you are experiencing, we would like to clarify a few things:

• Are all options in the Caption Styles section not working? (Mono serif, Casual, Cursive, etc.)
• Are all the other settings working except Caption Styles?
• Can you provide us a sample screenshot of the caption that you are seeing?
  (see: How to include a screenshot in your post)

In the meantime, we also highly encourage you to post this issue and your experience on the
Feedback Hub to increase visibility and awareness. Feedback items regularly receive Microsoft responses on the submissions in the Feedback app so you can see what we are doing about your feedback. For more information about the Feedback Hub, see our

support article and .

Looking forward to your reply.

 

Caption Styles" section in "Closed caption" setting doesn't work as intended.

Hi Mod,

There' a typos in my previous question, correction is
Caption Effects not the Caption Styles. The fact is all the other settings work except for the "Caption Effects", play on
Movies & TV app with local video and subtitle (.srt) files .

Kindly refer to the attachments below.











Thanks,

Eady

 

Caption Styles" section in "Closed caption" setting doesn't work as intended.

The "Caption Styles" section in "Closed caption" setting doesn't work as intended since Creators Update. I thought there is a problem with display driver on my laptop (April 2018 Update) but it's happened too on my partner's gaming PC (Creators Update).
Reset app or restart even reinstall OS didn't solve it. Any thoughts?