[Bug 22103] New: [WebVTT] Whitespace surrounding cuetimes separator "-->" should be optional

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=22103

            Bug ID: 22103
           Summary: [WebVTT] Whitespace surrounding cuetimes separator
                    "-->" should be optional
    Classification: Unclassified
           Product: TextTracks CG
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: WebVTT
          Assignee: silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com
          Reporter: caitlin.potter@senecacollege.ca
        QA Contact: dave.null@w3.org
                CC: mike@w3.org, public-texttracks@w3.org

There is some confusion due to the wording of the spec --
http://dev.w3.org/html5/webvtt/#dfn-collect-webvtt-cue-timings-and-settings
"Skip Whitespace" doesn't say anything about failing if the first character is
not a space U+0020 or tab U+0009, which is sort of in conflict with
http://dev.w3.org/html5/webvtt/#dfn-webvtt-cue-timings -- which states that
there must be one or more whitespace characters surrounding "-->".

This is kind of an inconsistency, but in more practical terms, we actually get
smaller code if we don't have to worry about there being a space between the
timestamp and "-->", and smaller code is always a good thing.

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Received on Tuesday, 21 May 2013 04:44:21 UTC