Re: Conversion of 608/708 captions to WebVTT - how to map the colour green

On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer
<silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 4:40 AM, David Singer <singer@apple.com> wrote:
>> Thanks Michael
>
> Ineed! Thanks for digging into this!
>
>
>> yes, you are right, we should map to colors of the same or close chromaticity.  I think we weren't thinking straight when we wrote that.
>
> Thanks - that had nothing to do with thinking straight. ;-)
> I merely wasn't aware of the color issues and CSS colors seemed to be
> the most direct mapping. So let's fix it.
>
>
>>  We probably need a table of the named colors in 608 and their matching CSS colors.
>
> That is codified in
> https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/text-tracks/raw-file/default/608toVTT/608toVTT.html#browsers.
>
> However, I would appreciate any patches to this listing.
>
> Michael: Is green the only color with problems or are any of the other
> colors problematic, too?
>
> These are the relevant rules:
>
> ::cue(c.green) {
>   color: green;
> }
>
> ::cue(c.bg_green) {
>   background-color: green;
> }
>
> What should we change them to? You're suggesting "lime", but it's
> possible to pick any CSS color spec, so if there is anything more
> appropriate than "lime" please provide that code.
>
> Also, if you have any other suggestions of improvement, do share! It's
> a wiki and easy to change at this point!

Apologies - it's not in the wiki any more (we've moved on) but it's
still a draft document at this stage!

Thanks for your help!

Cheers,
Silvia.

Received on Tuesday, 8 April 2014 02:58:06 UTC