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Bug 25633 - [WebVTT] Allow padding on each line of the cue background box
Summary: [WebVTT] Allow padding on each line of the cue background box
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: TextTracks CG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: WebVTT (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking
QA Contact: Web Media Text Tracks CG
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Whiteboard: v1
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Reported: 2014-05-09 15:09 UTC by Philip Jägenstedt
Modified: 2015-01-28 09:25 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Philip Jägenstedt 2014-05-09 15:09:10 UTC 
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-texttracks/2014May/0062.html

WebVTT is currently not capable of providing acceptable padding on every line of a cue, even it were possible to set the padding on it, because of this effect:
http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/3014

box-decoration-break could be part of the solution:
http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-break/#break-decoration
Comment 1 Philip Jägenstedt 2014-05-12 10:59:14 UTC 
v1 since creating captions that don't look terrible isn't possibly without this.