Re: Multiple Settings in a Cue

Thank you. That helps very much.

Kyle Barnhart
On Nov 27, 2012 7:28 PM, "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:

> 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.)
>
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