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Bug 9774 - "consecutive lines displayed below each other" - since subtitles tend to be rendered at the bottom, it's actually better for new subtitles to be rendered higher up. Of course, the individual lines of each subtitle still extend downwards, but it's still po
Summary: "consecutive lines displayed below each other" - since subtitles tend to be r...
Status: VERIFIED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: John Foliot
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
Whiteboard:
Keywords: a11y, a11ytf, media
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2010-05-20 09:13 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-07-18 18:42 UTC (History)
10 users (show)

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Description contributor 2010-05-20 09:13:57 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#timed-track-model

Comment:
"consecutive lines displayed below each other" - since subtitles tend to be
rendered at the bottom, it's actually better for new subtitles to be rendered
higher up. Of course, the individual lines of each subtitle still extend
downwards, but it's still possibly better to say "after each other".

Posted from: 184.36.82.183
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-09-25 15:54:43 UTC 
The text "consecutive lines displayed below each other" is talking about the writing direction, not subtitles.

We can't use "after" since this is _defining_ the word "after". (e.g. writing on roadways in English-speaking countries is written left-to-right bottom-to-top, with subsequent lines appearing "after" each other being above each other, not below.)
Comment 2 Martin Kliehm 2010-11-30 16:49:34 UTC 
Assigning the bug to John Foliot for discussion in the Media Sub-Team