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Bug 22332 - WebVTT: provide a recommendation for edge margin
Summary: WebVTT: provide a recommendation for edge margin
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: TextTracks CG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: WebVTT (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Silvia Pfeiffer
QA Contact: This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking
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Whiteboard: v1
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Reported: 2013-06-12 13:35 UTC by Silvia Pfeiffer
Modified: 2014-01-28 08:06 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Silvia Pfeiffer 2013-06-12 13:35:53 UTC 
Add a recommendation for the value to choose for edge margin - could be 1% or 1.5%, but should be made consistent between browsers.
Comment 1 Philip Jägenstedt 2014-01-28 07:39:01 UTC 
This bug needs some details. Do you want a default amount of padding for snap-to-line cues? If it should be overridable it probably has to be in CSS, but then the rendering becomes slightly more complicated because it has to actually do a bit of layout before it knows how much space is available to it.

An alternative approach would be to make line:-2 the default, but that wouldn't give us any padding on the left and right. Do we need that?
Comment 2 Silvia Pfeiffer 2014-01-28 08:06:22 UTC 
Oh, this can be marked as resolved, since we now have:

"The 'padding-top' and 'padding-bottom' property on the WebVTT cue background box must be set to '1.5vh' or another user-agent-defined number to define a margin at the edges of the video into which cues will not be placed."

Note that the rendering section still has the old text for the snap-to-lines case about a safe "title area". That needs to be removed and is part of the rewrite of the rendering section.