22154 2013-05-24 01:32:00 +0000 [WebVTT] DOM Node construction rules somewhat ambiguous 2016-10-11 17:53:06 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified TextTracks CG WebVTT unspecified All All RESOLVED FIXED v1 P2 normal --- 1 caitlin.potter silviapfeiffer1 caitlin.potter giles mike public-texttracks silviapfeiffer1 zcorpan dave.null oldest_to_newest 88170 0 caitlin.potter 2013-05-24 01:32:00 +0000 In a discussion with David Baron, we are having trouble figuring out exactly what sort of interface our DOM nodes created from WebVTT markup are supposed to implement -- In short, it's not clear what sort of elements we are supposed to be creating in section 4.4 -- HTMLElement with local name "b" or HTMLBoldElement (for example"). Some clarification of this would be helpful. 88188 1 zcorpan 2013-05-24 10:08:25 +0000 HTMLBoldElement doesn't exist. All the elements listed are defined to use HTMLElement in the HTML spec. So the WebVTT spec is correct. 88189 2 caitlin.potter 2013-05-24 10:14:14 +0000 I'm sure the spec may well be "correct", what we're saying is that it's not necessarily "clear", this could be improved upon. 88195 3 silviapfeiffer1 2013-05-24 11:26:36 +0000 Section 4.4 is very clear on this: http://dev.w3.org/html5/webvtt/#webvtt-cue-text-dom-construction-rules It talks about HTMLElement and lists the localNames of the nodes. I don't know what's unclear about that. 88203 4 caitlin.potter 2013-05-24 13:49:34 +0000 If it were clear, there wouldn't be confusion -- but there is, and this has been asked about by people this week during discussions about the track element / WebVTT. All we're hoping for is some clearer wording. The local-name vs node-type confusion in particular seems to have struck certain people as ambiguous. 88250 5 zcorpan 2013-05-27 11:03:34 +0000 (In reply to comment #1) > HTMLBoldElement doesn't exist. All the elements listed are defined to use > HTMLElement in the HTML spec. So the WebVTT spec is correct. Oops, turns out I was wrong. <span> is HTMLSpanElement. The rest use HTMLElement. Maybe the spec should say [[ An HTML span element. ]] with "span" being a link to http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/text-level-semantics.html#the-span-element instead of the current [[ HTMLElement element node with localName "span". ]] 123888 6 zcorpan 2015-10-24 13:58:16 +0000 https://github.com/w3c/webvtt/pull/223 125169 7 zcorpan 2016-02-19 21:22:11 +0000 *** Bug 28469 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***