Re: meta-data in the VTT file header, a strawman proposal

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 3:12 PM, David Singer <singer@apple.com> wrote:
>>
>> RFC 822 defines clearly that everything after the first null line is the
>> message body, not headers, so your example would have us treating
>
>
> RFC822 would take a lot of hammering to make it fit here.  (For example, it
> doesn't make sense to talk about the "body" of the message, since WebVTT
> isn't encapsulated *inside* an RFC-822 message; we're only talking about
> headers.)  WebVTT basing its header data on RFC-822 might be reasonable (not
> sure), but I'd only use it as a basis, not as a normative definition.

Note the slight difference in what I referred to: I only want to use
the RFC822 header specification, not the whole one. :-)

Silvia.

Received on Wednesday, 11 April 2012 01:15:41 UTC