Re: Displaying multiple lines in WebVTT

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:

>  I do not believe that it will. Mere tutorial-level information will be
> sufficient for this kind of thing. That is, whatever mechanism people use
> to learn the language will be fine.
>

People aren't likely to read tutorials for VTT when they've already
comfortable with SRT.

It's not one in a few thousand.
>

One in a few thousand is generous; I can't even think of a single example.

 The specific example above is a single bitmap from a DVD caption track.
> (First hit on Google for that cue's text identifies the source correctly.
> It happened to be what I had playing -- with captions enabled,
> coincidentally -- when I replied to the earlier e-mail.)
>

(Bitmap DVD captions, from what I vaguely recall--it's been a decade or so
since I wrote a decoder for them--only *support* showing a single bitmap at
a time.  This has no connection to how things should be authored in VTT.)

 I see no reason to suggest that authors should use two WebVTT cues for
> such a case. On the contrary, I think such cases are quite common.
>

They're lines spoken by two different people at different times.  Why would
you put them in the same caption?  The only way that could even be done
would be with a timestamp tag, which just seems pointless and harder to
edit.

-- 
Glenn Maynard