On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 21:40:51 +0100, Glenn Maynard <gl...@zewt.org> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Philip Jägenstedt <phil...@opera.com>
wrote:
But what's the use case? Is it really useful to have comments in a
subtitle file?
Being able to put licensing/contact information at the top of the file
would
be useful, just as it is in JavaScript/CSS.
Inline comments (not just line comments) in subtitles are very
important for collaborative editing: for leaving notes about a
translation, noting where editing is needed or why a change was made,
and so on.
If a DOM-like interface is specified for this (presumably this will
happen later), being able to access inline comments like DOM comment
nodes would be very useful for visual editors, to allow displaying
comments and to support features like "seek to next comment".
My assumptions is that comments would be removed during parsing, just as
in JavaScript and CSS.
If you need an intermediary format while editing, you can just use any
syntax you like and have the editor treat it specially.
--
Philip Jägenstedt
Core Developer
Opera Software
