- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:36:16 +1100
Can you provide some good examples where mid-cue comments make sense? I'm just wondering if it is really an 80% use case. I suppose, you can always do <c.comment> and then style it as "display:none", but this would only work in a browser unless offline caption applications start supporting style sheets or <c.comment> becomes common use. Cheers, Silvia. On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Glenn Maynard <glenn at zewt.org> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer > <silviapfeiffer1 at gmail.com> wrote: >> I would prefer if we could stick with a line based approach to this >> issue and something that can be resolved without having to look at a >> style sheet. If we do it this way, it doesn't become a pre-processor >> type comment any more and leaks everywhere, which can be a real >> nuisance, in particular for players that won't interpret the classes >> and only strip the <c> tags. > > I'm referring to a specific, real-world use case: being able to put > comments in the middle of a cue, typically editing notes. ?This is one > of the reasons why I don't like the idea of line-based comments. ?I > suggested the above as another possible way to handle that use case, > not as a generic way to write comments, since it could only be used > within cue text. > > The ability to display these notes inline while viewing the captions > is very useful--it's something I've specifically wanted in the past > with other caption formats. ?In fact, this would allow different > editors to mark their comments, in order to, for example, display > comments by different editors in different colors. ?<c.glenn>...</c> > > It's annoying that players not supporting CSS would display these by > default. ?It's not hard, in principle, to deal with it: add a node > type identical to <c>, but with a default of "display: none" (and > maybe an extra implicit class name, for CSS matching), eg. > <x.glenn>...</x>. ?I doubt it's worth the spec noise, though; > stripping the comments for distribution is a simple workaround, if not > exactly ideal. > > -- > Glenn Maynard >
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