[whatwg] WebVTT feedback (and some other <video> feedback that snuck in)

Simon Pieters simonp at opera.com
Fri Dec 2 02:58:39 PST 2011


On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:34:15 +0100, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:

> If we are to add language information to the language, there's four ways
> to do it: inline, cue-level, block-level (a section of the file, e.g.
> setting a default at different points in the file), and file-level.
>
> Inline would look like this:
>
>    WEBVTT
>
>    cue id
>    00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.000
>    <lang en>cue text says <lang fr>bonjour</lang></lang>
>
> File-level would look like this:
>
>    WEBVTT
>    language: fr

Experience with <script language> suggests that people have trouble  
spelling it. If we add it, I suggest it be called "lang".

>
>    cue id
>    00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.000
>    bonjour
>
> I suppose we'd need both. I wouldn't propose cue-level or block-level.
>
> How important is this for v1?

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Simon Pieters
Opera Software



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