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Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete.html#websrt-cue-ruby-span Comment: make </rt> optional (in syntax and parser) Posted from: 85.227.153.23
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Rejected Change Description: no spec change Rationale: My knee-jerk reaction is that this wouldn't occur enough to make it worth it. It'd be easy to add to the spec if people think it'd be a good thing to add, though. I'm certainly open to adding it if there's a good argument for adding it.
The discussion that was behind this bug was: # [21:44] <zcorpan_> Hixie: btw why can't </rt> be omitted? # [21:46] <Hixie> in the syntax or in the parser? # [21:47] <zcorpan_> both # [21:47] <Hixie> didn't really think about it # [21:48] <Hixie> just seemed simpler this way # [21:48] <Hixie> i guess if people want we can make it optional # [21:49] <zcorpan_> i saw subtitles with seemingly deliberatly omitting </i> by just looking at a handful # [21:49] <zcorpan_> doesn't seem like a stretch that people are going to omit </rt> especially since it's optional in html # [21:49] <Hixie> yeah seems reasonable # [21:49] <Hixie> file a bug and i'll look into it http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20100708#l-792
Well at least I'm consistent in my knee-jerk reaction...
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Checked in as WHATWG revision r5574. Check-in comment: Make </rt> optional in WebSRT. Add some ideas for the drag-and-drop model. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5573&to=5574