Re: File headers

I may have asked you this before, but can you please fix your email client
to use some form of standard quoting?  The unmarked indented quotes your'e
using make your mails confusing and hard to read, especially when they end
up in nested quotes.


On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 6:40 PM, David Singer <singer@apple.com> wrote:

> why do we need to allow the lack of a blank line before the first cue,
> i.e. why are we scanning for the -> stuff in the header?  In HTML, this
> kind of thing is there because of old poorly-written yet still-parsed
> content.  If we don't allow such content to work from day one, this problem
> never arises, and then the scanning is much much easier (look only for a
> blank line).
>

I think the issue is that the error of omitting the initial blank line is
easy to make, and the consequence is easy to miss, since the result is
simply that the first caption gets dropped on the floor.  This reduces the
consequences of that.  (It doesn't eliminate them, since any data in the
cue before the timestamp line are still dropped, but those are much less
common.)

(I'm not personally convinced that this is needed; I think having the first
caption disappear is plainly obvious, but I've tried to offer an approach
that retains that error-recovery.)

I don't think it's difficult to constrain the -> error-handling case in a
way that still recovers more or less as well without causing issues with
headers, if that change can still be made.  I detailed one approach to this
earlier in the thread (or a related thread).

-- 
Glenn Maynard