- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:28:27 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Kyle Barnhart <kyle@barnhart.ca>
- cc: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>, Loretta Guarino Reid <lorettaguarino@google.com>, public-texttracks@w3.org
On Tue, 27 Nov 2012, Kyle Barnhart wrote: > > Let me point out why I asked this question. > > Twice in the WebVTT specification it is explicitly pointed out that an > "ordered list" is used. > - WebVTT Internal Node Objects have an ordered list of child WebVTT Node > Objects [1] > - WebVTT Internal Node Objects also have an ordered list of class names [1] > > In addition the word "append" is used 27 times in the specification > indicating that order is important. > > In the parse WebVTT settings algorithm [2], it only states that there is a > list of setting token. There is no reference to order. > > In the split a string on spaces algorithm [3], it specifies only that a > list is created. It also states "add" to the list and not "append". The > common micro syntax document [3] uses the word "append" 9 times. In > addition there are explicit instruction for ordered and unordered sets > of tokens. I've made it clearer that these lists are ordered, just so that there's no ambiguity here. > http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec//common-microsyntaxes.html#split-a-string-on-spaces See http://whatwg.org/html#split-a-string-on-spaces for the most up to date copy of this text. (In particular, WebVTT references the terms as defined in the WHATWG HTML spec; I make no guarantees that the references make sense if you use the W3C HTML5 spec for the HTML terms.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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