- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:46:12 +1000
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>, "public-texttracks@w3.org" <public-texttracks@w3.org>
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > On Thu, 26 Apr 2012, Glenn Maynard wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: >> > >> > The specific example above is a single bitmap from a DVD caption >> > track. (First hit on Google for that cue's text identifies the source >> > correctly. It happened to be what I had playing -- with captions >> > enabled, coincidentally -- when I replied to the earlier e-mail.) >> >> (Bitmap DVD captions, from what I vaguely recall--it's been a decade or >> so since I wrote a decoder for them--only *support* showing a single >> bitmap at a time. This has no connection to how things should be >> authored in VTT.) > > I disagree about how captions should be authored. I understand that this > would lead us to different conclusions about how the format should be > designed. Not sure what to do about that. One advantage that an explicit newline element would bring is: we can have empty lines in a cue without changing the general WebVTT parser. For example: 00:00:00:00 -> 00:00:03:00 - You ready, Corporal?<br> <br> - Yes, ma'am. This is something that is currently not possible. Cheers, Silvia.
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