On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 1:49 PM, David Singer <singer@apple.com> wrote:
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> On Dec 8, 2013, at 19:16 , Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> >>> I fully expect that more than half of these
> >>> features are not encodable or translatable to WebVTT, or if they are,
> then
> >>> have the added disadvantage of having to maintain a separate CSS style
> sheet
> >>> containing rules that apply to specific VTT files.
> >
> > Why is that a disadvantage? Separating the styling from the content
> > has been a driving design principle of the Web and has been part of
> > the cause for the success of HTML. I don't see how that would be a
> > disadvantage.
>
> I think that many think of this as an *advantage*; that VTT re-uses and
> leverages the web platform, including CSS.
>
We certainly do here in Chrome Land...
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>
> David Singer
> Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.
>
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