Re: WebVTT spec

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:

> 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
>

I guess I'll understand when I do a proper review...


> 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.
>

Thanks! (It's not that hard to find with the markers in place, but still.)



> > 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)...
>


I'll try to stay true to your style. Do call me out when I get it wrong.

Thanks,
Silvia.