Re: File headers

On Mar 10, 2013, at 18:34 , Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you have to escape an empty line with a "\", then you might as well not do inline styles, since you have to author them differently to a CSS file.
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> The intent is to allow a WebVTT editor, or serialization and parsing library, to represent blank lines, so the header format doesn't have a weird exception of not being able to represent something as basic as a blank line.  I don't expect people hand-authoring WebVTT files to use this.
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> We can't exclude that possibility. I'd expect a lot of cut-and-paste authoring, which would totally break for CSS.

I think it's a minimal change to escape blank lines and terminators ("." on a line by itself) and lines that start with the escape.

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> The more I think about CSS, the more I'd prefer to force it to be in an external stylesheet.

It's easier to document inline and then expect to use @import, than 'the other way around' (which means using a data: URI, or somesuch)

> 
> Silvia.

David Singer
Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.