- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 05:35:32 -0400
- To: David Ronca <dronca@netflix.com>
- Cc: public-texttracks@w3.org
BTW: this only refers to the 608/708 conversion spec.
The ::cue selector of the WebVTT spec is perfectly ok to use, where
browsers support it.
Also, if/when we introduce inline styles for WebVTT, all of the
special selectors as well as the styles listed in the WebVTT spec will
be available for use there.
HTH,
Silvia.
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 5:32 AM, Silvia Pfeiffer
<silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> That part of the spec is pure speculation at this point and is not
> standardised. Please don't implement that yet. I'm going to have to
> revisit it.
>
> Please only use external style sheets with the Web page into which the
> WebVTT file is included at this point.
>
> Thanks,
> Silvia.
>
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 2:46 AM, David Ronca <dronca@netflix.com> wrote:
>> The C/S Specification has this section:
>>
>> It is also possible to avoid importing an external style sheet and include
>> the styles directly in the WebVTT header. Here is an example:
>>
>>
>> WEBVTT
>> Style:
>> ::cue {
>> line-height: 5.33vh;
>> font-size: 4.1vh;
>> font-family: monospace;
>> font-style: normal;
>> font-weight: normal;
>> background-color: black;
>> color: white;
>> }
>> ##
>> Kind: captions
>> Language: en-US
>>
>> I don't see much discussion of inline styles in the WebVTT spec. Is it also
>> possible to have named styles defined inline like this?
>>
>> ::cue(c.white) {
>> color: white;
>> }
>> ::cue(c.red) {
>> color: red;
>> }
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> David
Received on Thursday, 27 June 2013 09:36:19 UTC