- From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:13:15 +0200
- To: "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>, "Silvia Pfeiffer" <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>, Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com>
- Cc: "Glenn Maynard" <glenn@zewt.org>, "public-texttracks@w3.org" <public-texttracks@w3.org>
On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:03:47 +0200, Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com> wrote: >> 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. > > I've never seen captions with blank lines in them like the above, do we > really want them? It seems like it's really line height you want to > change. http://simon.html5.org/dump/srt-dialogue-with-empty-line-between.txt (srt-samples is about 4GB worth of SRT files) I don't think we should switch to <br> to support this. :-) > In any event, blank lines are already possible by including an or > other whitespace character on a line. > > Using <br> has some short-term benefits, but I tend to think that actual > newlines will make more sense in the long term for a strongly > line-oriented format... I think using <br> won't prevent people from using explicit line breaks in practice, so it's probably the wrong way to encourage authors to rely on automatic wrapping. -- Simon Pieters Opera Software
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