Re: WebVTT spec

On Tue, 12 Mar 2013, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
> 
> I'm curious: what's the idea behind the "cues in isolation" part? What 
> would they be used for and how should they be rendered?

It's fixing this bug:

   https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=15620


> Other that this I think it looks good from my first cursory glance. I'll 
> also have to do a proper review, also from the HTML spec POV, but both 
> will go hand in hand.
> 
> I'll let you know when I'm set up to take this over. I'll work through 
> the publishing pipeline with Robin and Mike. I agree that a stage is the 
> first step.

Sounds good. I put all the markup for WebVTT together in one place in the 
spec source so it should be pretty easy to extract now.


> Mike also asked me to move to using ReSpec, so I will copy the WebVTT 
> spec out of the source file and get that going first.

If you do move to respec, please avoid the temptation to break the spec 
the way most respec API specs seem to (not defining APIs with RFC2119 
terms, and so forth)...

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Received on Tuesday, 12 March 2013 01:10:55 UTC