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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12043 --- Comment #4 from Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com> 2011-02-16 09:04:57 UTC --- (In reply to comment #3) > We used to support both "." and ",", but it was simplified to just "." when > WebVTT stopped being intentionally compatible with SRT because it turns out SRT > is way the heck more complicated than it appears to be. If it wasn't for SRT > there really would be no reason to support "," as far as I can tell; formats > like this usually use the US locale in their syntax. > > foolip: do you want to add anything here? IIRC it was your idea to remove > support for ",". Short answer: I still think we should support only "." as the separator. The only compatibility issue here is going from SRT to WebVTT, where it isn't enough to just add "WEBVTT FILE". I don't think we should keep trying stay closely compatible with SRT. Doing that means that we have less room to improve the timing line format, add comment syntax, etc. While making it hard for authors isn't exactly a design goal, there's something to be said for "encouraging" people to use converters which will also help catch non-UTF-8 files, fix timestamps with less than 3 decimals, etc. -- Configure bugmail: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug.
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