On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 9:36 PM, Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 7:10 AM, Michael Borthwick > <mb@michaelborthwick.com.au> wrote: > > On 08/04/2014, at 1:08 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: > > > >> Note: I've made the change to "lime" and updated the related text, see > >> https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/text-tracks/rev/07a843b7f31d > >> > >> Please let me know if there are more changes necessary. > >> > >> Regards, > >> Silvia. > > > > > > Dear list members, > > > > For those who are interested I have made the 22 minute video of my SMPTE > > Australia 2013 talk regarding this issue available online with > appropriate > > amendments to reflect the changes kindly made by Silvia last year to the > > mapping of green into CSS lime. > > > > > http://michaelborthwick.com.au/closed_captioning_online_streaming_video_dfxp_webvtt.html > > Thanks Michael, this was a great talk! I'm not sure why, but I found > the trouble with green and conflicting standards very amusing, a very > familiar kind of problem. > > Since WebVTT doesn't have any dedicated syntax for colors it really > comes down to the CSS that goes along with the captions, and of course > any mapping specs. Unfortunately, I suspect you will not be the last > to spend time looking for a suitable green color. > Haven't had a chance to watch yet, but from TTML: <named-color> : ... | "green" // #008000ff | "lime" // #00ff00ff | "olive" // #808000ff > > Did you ever hear back from the BBC about which the ultimate colors > are? I doubt that #00FF00 is actually used on the Web, it's so bright! > Y = 0.299R + 0.587G + 0.114B > > Somewhat on topic, if you're making new captions, you might consider > using WebVTT's voice tag, with which you can annotate the speaker and > then style the speaker more explicitly. This is the second example in > http://dev.w3.org/html5/webvtt/#other-features > > Philip > >
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