On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 9:46 AM, David Singer <singer@apple.com> wrote:
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> On Mar 18, 2013, at 15:11 , Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
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> > On Tue, 19 Mar 2013, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
> >>
> >> Agreed. But we're talking about inlining CSS files which also have
> >> significant blank lines.
> >
> > Blank lines aren't significant in CSS.
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>
> That's my understanding; that blank lines can be removed from any CSS file
> without any change in meaning. Someone find a counter-example if we're
> wrong, please!
>
Not significant for the parser, but for the author and for readability.
What I meant with it is that blank lines are in use in typical CSS, so we
can't do a simple cut and paste to put CSS into WebVTT without having to
edit the pasted text.
In fact, let's double-check; any line-breaks in a CSS file can be converted
> to other white-space without a change in meaning, also. True?
>
Other white space like spaces? I think so. Are you suggesting to put all
CSS in a single line?
Silvia.