Re: STYLE section inside VTT file

On Mon, 16 May 2016 15:04:22 +0200, 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?
>
> Thanks.

Hello Brad! STYLE is not yet implemented, that's why it doesn't work. :-)  
Please file issues for browsers asking to implement it. If it isn't  
implemented it will eventually be removed from the specification.

cheers
-- 
Simon Pieters
Opera Software

Received on Tuesday, 17 May 2016 12:24:51 UTC