Re: VTT/CSS (was RE: Evidence of 'Wide Review' needed for VTT)

> On Jan 22, 2015, at 9:47 , Loretta Guarino Reid <lorettaguarino@google.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the clarification. I agree, inline stylesheets should be sufficient.

that was always my ‘high nail’ too (if you look at the old thread).

I’ll see if I can excavate where we got to before we got tired of discussion!

> 
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 11:52 PM, Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jan 2015 07:16:42 +0100, Loretta Guarino Reid <lorettaguarino@google.com> wrote:
> 
> In short, style rules in the header of a VTT file is what we (our
> publishers) would like to have. Styling rules inside the cues and
> links to external CSS are less relevant.
> 
> 
> CSS can link to external CSS with @import, so VTT doesn't need a dedicated
> mechanism for that.
> 
> 
> This does not solve the problem of keeping all of the authored information
> in a single file. I agree with Jeroen on the desirability of style rules in
> the header.
> 
> Yes, but I think you missed my point. My point is that if we add a mechanism to include an inline stylesheet, we also get a mechanism to point to an external stylesheet for free, since CSS already has it.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Simon Pieters
> Opera Software
> 

David Singer
Manager, Software Standards, Apple Inc.

Received on Thursday, 22 January 2015 16:00:31 UTC