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Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-video-element.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#parsing-0 Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#parsing-0 Comment: Always start a new cue when seeing a line containing "-->" Posted from: 85.227.157.105 User agent: Opera/9.80 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.5.8; U; en) Presto/2.9.168 Version/11.52
See http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2011-October/033600.html To match author intention and get a better user experience, we should always start a new cue when seeing a line containing "-->". If the author wants "-->" in cue data, then it needs to be escaped as "-->". I also suggest we do this in the "headers" part of the file, since I expect it will be roughly equally common to forget a newline there as between cues.
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Checked in as WHATWG revision r6758. Check-in comment: Make the WebVTT parser a bit more forgiving: data suggests that we should always start a cue if we hit a line that contains the magic string -->. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6757&to=6758