Re: STYLE section inside VTT file

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 6:08 PM, Bradley Botkin <bradley_botkin@wgbh.org>
wrote:

> Hi Frederik,
>
> Is there a browser that *does* implement the STYLE block?
>

To the best of my knowledge, no there currently isn't.


/fs


>
> Thanks.
> —Brad
>
>
> On May 16, 2016, at 11:53 AM, Fredrik Söderquist <fs@opera.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
>