Re: text-wrap balance

I think everyone is in agreement that it should be marked at risk and
likely removed from the current version to get WebVTT out to PR.

There's still a question of whether it should stay in WebVTT in a
subsequent version but there isn't a time boundary on this. text-wrap:
balance could stay in a WebVTT editor's draft until the CSS spec gets far
enough along for us to comfortably include it in WebVTT.

I'm with Silvia in that this sounds like the correct default behavior for
captions to have, even if ideally, a user has laid out captions nicely. So,
we should express our interest and encourage the CSS working group to
continue working on it.

On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 11:45 PM Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 6:02 PM Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 10:32 PM David Singer <singer@apple.com> wrote:
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>> > > On Jun 18, 2019, at 14:19 , Silvia Pfeiffer <
>> silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > > While I agree with this and also have no problem excluding this from
>> REC, is still like to encourage the CSS WG to continue with it. Glenn's
>> listing of existing deterministic algorithms in this space should be enough
>> to give us an expectation that it's feasible and technically possible.
>> >
>> > I’ve heard offline that people think that there are reasonable
>> algorithms too. That doesn’t make it specifiiable yet, tho.
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>> I don't follow: if it's been implemented and made replicable, it can
>> be specified.
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> Just because* some* algorithm can be specified doesn't mean it will be
> specified in a form that permits a normative reference, particularly in a
> reasonable amount of time. Are you willing to wait for 2 or 3 years to
> elapse to get an algorithm written into a CSS spec, get it tested, and move
> that spec to at least PR or REC before moving forward on VTT?
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>> I think it's a matter of priority and effort - if somebody puts the
>> effort behind it and gets the support by the group, it will get done.
>> I think it might be that "simple" in the end. :-)
>> So, lobbying the CSS group to increase the priority on this feature
>> would be a great thing for this group to do.
>>
>> Just my 2c worth. :-)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Silvia.
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