[Bug 23030] [WebVTT] Clarify text position calculation

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=23030

Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |philipj@opera.com
         Resolution|---                         |FIXED

--- Comment #1 from Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com> ---
(In reply to rpuri from comment #0)
> While going through
> https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/text-tracks/raw-file/default/webvtt/webvtt.html
> (dated Auugust 21, 2013), i noticed the following two statements:
> 
> 1. "If the writing direction is horizontal, then line position percentages
> are relative to the height of the video, and text position and size
> percentages are relative to the width of the video."
> 
> 2. "A number giving the position of the text within the cue box. If the cue
> is not within a region, the value is to be interpreted as a percentage of
> the box's size, otherwise as a percentage of the region width."
> 
> Specfically, it appears that the interpretation of text position percentage
> is different between the above two statements when size is not equal to 100%
> (assuming regions are not used) 
> 
> Is my concern express aboved justified? If so, what is the correct
> interpretation?

You were justified, the use of "box's size" was strange. Silvia fixed this as
part of https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=20037 in October 2013,
so I am closing this bug as fixed. Please reopen if you think the new wording
is also contradictory.

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