On Tue., 18 Jun. 2019, 6:11 am David Singer, <singer@apple.com> wrote: > > > > On Jun 17, 2019, at 15:15 , Nigel Megitt <nigel.megitt@bbc.co.uk> wrote: > > > > On 17/06/2019, 13:13, "David Singer" <singer@mac.com> wrote: > >> > >> > >>> On Jun 17, 2019, at 12:05 , Nigel Megitt <nigel.megitt@bbc.co.uk> > wrote: > >>> > >>> Just for completeness, the reason for marking it as at risk now in > >>> WebVTT CR is that it is not implemented adequately. > >>> > >> > >> FWIW, though there are helpful signs on the horizon, this feature seems > >> possibly under-specified and almost certainly un-implemented, so we > donąt > >> have much choice but to take it out for nowŠ > > > > How fast are we moving towards those helpful signs? > > Not fast enough, or indeed, not at a known predictable speed > While I agree with this and also have no problem excluding this from REC, is still like to encourage the CSS WG to continue with it. Glenn's listing of existing deterministic algorithms in this space should be enough to give us an expectation that it's feasible and technically possible. That the CSS WG haven't resolved it may be because of to little requests for it rather than anything else. About whether a human will do it better and follow the BBC recommendations more closely: I don't doubt it. But sometimes (particularly in times of auto captions) there won't be a human in the mix and an algorithm is all we get. We should prepare a better solution than the existing default line breaks of HTML for this. Cheers, Silvia.
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