Re: WebVTT spec

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Mar 2013, Ian Hickson wrote:
> >
> > Sounds good. I'll try to put the pieces in the right places and fix the
> > glue between WebVTT and HTML before I hand it over (should be able to do
> > that today), so you don't have to clean up my mess. :-)
>
> Ok, I think the WebVTT spec now contains all the stuff that's
> WebVTT-specific, and the HTML spec is in theory now cue-language neutral
> (though for sanity's sake I've used WebVTT in all the examples).
>
> Let me know if you see anything missing.
>
> Silvia, you may wish to wait until the above has been reviewed (and
> indeed, you almost certainly want to carefully review it yourself, if
> you're going to edit the spec!) before actually taking over. Let me know
> when you want to start updating http://dev.w3.org/html5/webvtt/ and I'll
> stop my end of the pipeline. I recommend getting to a stage where you're
> outputting exactly the same markup so that we know that we're not making
> any mistakes in the hand-over (e.g. in case I have some preprocessing in
> place that I've forgotten about or something).
>

Thanks for this! That was fast.

I'm curious: what's the idea behind the "cues in isolation" part? What
would they be used for and how should they be rendered?

Other that this I think it looks good from my first cursory glance. I'll
also have to do a proper review, also from the HTML spec POV, but both will
go hand in hand.

I'll let you know when I'm set up to take this over. I'll work through the
publishing pipeline with Robin and Mike. I agree that a stage is the first
step. Mike also asked me to move to using ReSpec, so I will copy the WebVTT
spec out of the source file and get that going first. Might take a week or
so, because I'm now not working for Google any longer on this.

Cheers,
Silvia.