Re: STYLE section inside VTT file

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 3:14 PM, Bradley Botkin <bradley_botkin@wgbh.org>
wrote:

> Sorry for the newbie question… I’m confused about using the STYLE section
> in a WebVTT file.
>
> There’s quite a bit of documentation and postings about the STYLE section
> inside a VTT file. It boils down to something like this (for example):
>
> WEBVTT
>
> STYLE
> ::cue(.red){ color: red; }
>
>
> 1
> 00:00:00.100 --> 00:00:50.000
> <c.red>This should be a red caption</c>
>
> My tests with Safari/Chrome/Firefox (all Mac) all fail to render the red
> caption.  However, putting that same style markup in the CSS within the
> HTML all succeed in rendering the red caption. I’m sure I’m missing
> something obvious.  Caption vendors will typically be able to deliver a
> WebVTT file to a client, but have no access to underlying HTML. It should
> never be necessary for the Webmaster to modify HTML in order to display
> captions properly.
>
>
> For a demonstration of my problem, point a browser at:
>
>
> https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ncamftp.wgbh.org/brad/webvtt/capswithstyles.html
>
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>

The WebVTT style block has not yet been implemented by any of the browsers
you list (AFAIK).


/fs