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A lot of styling is done still in the old Advanced Substation subtitle format, which is nice in a whole number of ways but doesn't have any standards working group behind and so it's a bit ignored in software and operations.

People use either some flavor of W3C's Timed Text or WebVTT instead (and it was already a pain to get them to drag their feet into them and drop the old analog broadcast formats). Now, here's the thing. WebVTT isn't radically different in format and features to (A)SSA and it has plenty of styling options... but, once again, a lot of platforms and software are dragging their feet to support them.

So the industry has been sloooowly doing the right thing moving to the W3C standards (not a huge fan of Timed Text myself, but it exists for a reason), but only with the most basic and safe features. Which are also about as many features you get out of plain speech to text output, so it's even easier to make that decision.


The amount of calls on some pages displaying the simplest stuff is mind-boggling. 160 requests for a page just displaying a HTML5 video and a title, 360 requests for a Reddit page, it's nuts. We don't need to be like this.


"We and our 350 partners care about your privacy".


Don't remind me, Front Page Express' generated HTML was the stuff of nightmares.


Still better than Microsoft Word.


It's tablet cases with bluetooth keyboard now.


Even Citroen has an EV Berlingo and that model is the bread and butter of Southern Europe.


To be fair to our ancestors, their sewage composition was much simpler than the exotic chemical cocktail we send down the drain nowadays.


Depends on what Industry was dumping into sewers at the time; there tends to be less of that these days.


irssi had a plugin to read and post to Twitter from IRC, it was neat.


Ticket price doesn't tell the whole story, if those euros are staying in Europe instead of leaving the union and funding someone else's space program.


I assume they don't want wild animals that are ridden with diseases to end in something like cattle feed more than unavoidable.


Also, running over a fawn really bums out the person driving the tractor!


Clicklock is much nicer in Windows than the awkward methods I've found so far with Linux.


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