Re: Displaying multiple lines in WebVTT

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Apr 2012, Glenn Maynard wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
>> >
>> > 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 disagree about how captions should be authored. I understand that this
> would lead us to different conclusions about how the format should be
> designed. Not sure what to do about that.


One advantage that an explicit newline element would bring is: we can
have empty lines in a cue without changing the general WebVTT parser.

For example:

00:00:00:00 -> 00:00:03:00
- You ready, Corporal?<br>
<br>
- Yes, ma'am.

This is something that is currently not possible.

Cheers,
Silvia.