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Bug 29179 - Validator is an undefined term
Summary: Validator is an undefined term
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: TextTracks CG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: WebVTT (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking
QA Contact: Web Media Text Tracks CG
URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/webvtt1/
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Reported: 2015-10-06 09:12 UTC by nigelmegitt
Modified: 2015-11-13 09:29 UTC (History)
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Description nigelmegitt 2015-10-06 09:12:28 UTC 
The Conformance section (2.1) encourages authors to use a validator but does not define what a validator is. 

Note with reference to github/w3c/webvtt issue #217 (https://github.com/w3c/webvtt/issues/217#issuecomment-145750657) that the intention is for different behaviour in validators vs user agents. If this is the case then the concept of validation needs to be defined explicitly with separate requirements to those for UA presentation.
Comment 1 Simon Pieters 2015-11-13 09:29:23 UTC 
https://github.com/w3c/webvtt/pull/255