[webvtt] Wide Review Comment 2017: line cue setting direction

nigelmegitt has just created a new issue for https://github.com/w3c/webvtt:

== Wide Review Comment 2017: line cue setting direction ==
Copy/paste from https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-tt/2017Sep/0080.html - raising as an issue for tracking/disposition purposes.

(Context is section 4.4 "WebVTT cue settings" -> the "WebVTT line cue setting")

looking at that line cue setting, it "configures the offset of the cue box from the video viewport's edge in the direction opposite to the writing direction". I think that means "orthogonal to the writing direction" but it could be interpreted as the negative of the writing direction, i.e. If the writing direction is top-to-bottom then does this mean left-to-right or bottom-to-top? 

Then the WebVTT position cue setting "configures the indent position of the cue box in the direction orthogonal to the WebVTT line cue setting". Why doesn't it simply say "in the writing direction"?

Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/webvtt/issues/382 using your GitHub account

Received on Wednesday, 27 September 2017 12:25:33 UTC