Re: WebVTT wrapping

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:

> In CSS you can envisage cases where the content to balance is thousands of
> lines long. In WebVTT we'ren normally talking about a couple of lines.
>

Right.  I'm suggesting a definition of balancing that can be used for both.

> The algorithm I proposed is is O(n), so it should be possible to change
> > it into a CSS white-space style later (which is really where it
> > belongs).
>
> We can still do that; the white-space value isn't going to _disallow_ the
> ideal rendering, that would be silly.
>

The current definition prohibits using an approximation.  Are we okay this
changing later to allow it?  I guess it shouldn't cause problems, since
font rendering isn't strictly defined anyway.

-- 
Glenn Maynard