- From: Simon Pieters via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 08:43:59 +0000
- To: public-texttracks@w3.org
zcorpan has just created a new issue for https://github.com/w3c/webvtt: == Change syntax for cue id to a setting? == The parser is a bit annoying because the id is before the timings. I think it would be better if the id was a setting of the cue instead, as in: ``` 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.000 id:foo Hello world ``` This would restrict the id to not contain spaces. For the parser, it would mean that a new block can just look at the first line to determine what kind of block it it, instead of checking the second line first to see if it contains `-->`. For instance, the following is a valid cue with the id "NOTE", which is a bit weird (and similarly for other block types we introduce): ``` NOTE 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.000 Hello world ``` If we were to change this, then legacy files would have their IDs dropped on the floor (as invalid blocks terminated by a line that contains `-->` which starts a new cue). Is it too late to change this? What do people think? See https://github.com/w3c/webvtt/issues/254
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