Add contributors, and sort alphabetically (#336)

Co-authored-by: Marcos Caceres 

Author: chrisn

media-source-respec.html

@@ -50,30 +50,6 @@
       ],
 
       mseDefGroupName: "media-source",
-      mseContributors: [
-        "Bob Lund",
-        "Alex Giladi",
-        "Duncan Rowden",
-        "Mark Vickers",
-        "Glenn Adams",
-        "Frank Galligan",
-        "Steven Robertson",
-        "Matt Ward",
-        "David Dorwin",
-        "Kevin Streeter",
-        "Joe Steele",
-        "Michael Thornburgh",
-        "Philip Jägenstedt",
-        "John Simmons",
-        "Pierre Lemieux",
-        "Cyril Concolato",
-        "Ralph Giles",
-        "David Singer",
-        "Tatsuya Igarashi",
-        "Chris Poole",
-        "Jer Noble",
-        "Matthew Gregan"
-      ],
 
       // name of the WG
       group: "media",
@@ -3166,7 +3142,40 @@ Examples
 
     <section id="acknowledgements">
       <h2>Acknowledgmentsh2>
-      The editors would like to thank <a def-id="contributors">a> for their contributions to this specification.
+      <p>The editors would like to thank
+      Alex Giladi,
+      Bob Lund,
+      Chris Needham,
+      Chris Poole,
+      Chris Wilson,
+      Cyril Concolato,
+      Dale Curtis,
+      David Dorwin,
+      David Singer,
+      Duncan Rowden,
+      François Daoust,
+      Frank Galligan,
+      Glenn Adams,
+      Jer Noble,
+      Joe Steele,
+      John Simmons,
+      Kagami Sascha Rosylight,
+      Kevin Streeter,
+      Marcos Cáceres,
+      Mark Vickers,
+      Matt Ward,
+      Matthew Gregan,
+      Michael(tm) Smith,
+      Michael Thornburgh,
+      Mounir Lamouri,
+      Paul Adenot,
+      Philip Jägenstedt,
+      Philippe Le Hegaret,
+      Pierre Lemieux,
+      Ralph Giles,
+      Steven Robertson,
+      and Tatsuya Igarashi for their contributions to this specification.
+    p>
     section>
 
     <section id="VideoPlaybackQuality" class="appendix informative">

media-source.js

@@ -127,22 +127,6 @@
     df.appendChild(f);
   }
 
-  function contributors_helper(doc, df, id, text) {
-    var contributors = window.respecConfig.mseContributors;
-    contributors.sort();
-
-    var str = "";
-    for (var i = 0; i < contributors.length - 1; ++i) {
-      if (i > 0)
-        str += ", ";
-      str += contributors[i];
-    }
-    str += ", and ";
-    str += contributors[contributors.length - 1];
-
-    df.appendChild(doc.createTextNode(str));
-  }
-
   function append_error_helper(doc, df, id, text) {
     link_helper(doc, df, id, 'append error algorithm');
   }
@@ -215,8 +199,6 @@
 
     'media-data-cannot-be-fetched': { func: fragment_helper, fragment: '', link_text: '"If the media data cannot be fetched at all, due to network errors, causing the user agent to give up trying to fetch the resource"', },
     'Otherwise-mode-is-local': { func: fragment_helper, fragment: '', link_text: '"Otherwise (mode is local)"', },
-
-    'contributors': { func: contributors_helper, fragment: '', link_text: '', },
   };
 
   // These definitions are only referenced from the registries.