- From: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:45:02 -0700
- To: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Cc: public-texttracks <public-texttracks@w3.org>
On Sep 26, 2012, at 0:40 , Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com> wrote: > On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 23:54:48 +0200, David Singer <singer@apple.com> wrote: > >> >> On Sep 24, 2012, at 7:28 , Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> In any case: I'm going to use file-wide metadata for the CEA-608/708 >>> conversion document [1]. I'm going to follow what was last discussed >>> with Simon, except I don't really know when to end the multi-line >>> value, so I chose a random "##" as the character sequence to end it >>> (happy for any better suggestions). I preferred this as more obvious >>> than a single ".". >> >> roughly why I suggested [[ to open and ]] to close (it's more visually noticeable, and is like CDATA) :-). Not a ditch worth dying in, as long as we choose a line that is unlikely in what we want to embed (notably CSS). >> >> >>> I'm fully aware that the WebVTT spec itself needs not to say anything >>> about this - it will not break browsers in any case. It would, >>> however, be better if we could change the spec to regard the >>> multi-line values that may have empty lines in them not as broken >>> cues, but as part of the header. We could define - as Simon said - >>> anything between the "WEBVTT" magic string and the first successfully >>> parsed cue as "header". >> >> >> ...or we could ban blank lines in the header (none of our use-cases require them, after all), or escape them (or a combination). > > If the use cases don't require blank lines, we can use a blank line to end a multi-line header. ouch. can we use the blank line, as now, to end the headers? you seem to want to make it possible to mix headers and cues, which means we have to have a more complex way to tell them apart, and rules not to put headers after cues, and I am not sure at all why. can you explain? > > WEBVTT > language: en > style: > @import url(style.css); > > kind: subtitles > > 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.000 > cue > > -- > Simon Pieters > Opera Software David Singer Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.
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