Re: Inline style: external resources

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 4:03 PM, Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 15:00:30 +0200, Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Oh, right, as part of "the properties corresponding to the background
>> shorthand." If it's the only problematic property, explicitly
>> excluding it would be fine I think.
>
>
> Yes, but it would disallow data: URLs as background-image as well as things
> like CSS gradients, which is too restrictive. Instead I specified that URLs
> other than data: URLs just fail to resolve.
>
> https://github.com/w3c/webvtt/commit/9fdff0abcbcfc5024f103ccc8c54ff94162cd27d

OK, that seems fine. I had never realized it was possible to have
background images in WebVTT until now, but I see that it actually
works. Is there anything useful that could be done with this, given
that you have no idea what the size of the box the background will
apply to is?

Received on Thursday, 22 October 2015 07:54:00 UTC