New content kit finished - Working with HTML5 Video: Adding captions and subtitles

[Chris Mills]

Hi all,

I’ve written a new content kit — "Working with HTML5 Video: Adding captions and subtitles”[0]. One purpose of this was to take the content kit template[1] for a test drive, and see how long a content kit might take to create, with a feasibility study in mind for having Mozilla fellows include a content kit as part of their deliverables.

Please have a look at the content kit and let me know what you think. It includes:

1. A detailed content kit index.
2. A slide deck for presenting on the topic.
3. A series of code directories to show a demo at various stages of completion.
4. A tutorial to show how to build up the demo, and how it works, as an optional piece in case the presenter wants to run a min workshop on the subject too.
5. An updated stylesheet to provide some nicer styling than the original content kit template had available to it.

I have made a few changes to the content kit template, to improve clarity a bit, but I’ve not pushed the updated stylesheet back to that repo or anything. I wanted to see what you thought first before doing so.

In addition to this other work, I also wrote a guide to creating a content kit[2], which I thought might also be useful. Again, let me know what you think.

All the best,

Chris Mills
Senior tech writer || Mozilla
developer.mozilla.org || MDN
cmi...@mozilla.com || @chrisdavidmills

[0] https://github.com/chrisdavidmills/html5-captions-and-subtitles-content-kit
[1] https://github.com/mdn/content-kit-template/
[2] https://github.com/chrisdavidmills/content-kit-guide

[Dietrich Ayala]

> One purpose of this was to take the content kit template[1] for a test drive, and see
> how long a content kit might take to create, with a feasibility study in mind for having
> Mozilla fellows include a content kit as part of their deliverables.

What are your thoughts after the test drive? How long did it take?

-d

[Chris Mills]

It felt pretty straight forward to do. Creating the content kit probably took about 20 hours. Doing the non-mandatory stuff (modifying the template, writing the tutorial I included) probably took another 10 hours. This may sound like a lot, but it’s not really that much to handle over a month or so.

Saying that, I am an experienced tech writer, I know the subject very well, and the demo was pretty easy and simple to pull together. Some content kits could take longer.

I made some changes to the template and wrote the content guide to make it easier for others.

Chris Mills
Senior tech writer || Mozilla
developer.mozilla.org || MDN
cmi...@mozilla.com || @chrisdavidmills