Re: media fragment URI use on web pages

> For example, we can't
> send additional HTTP headers based on the presence of #t=1 on the first
> request, unless put into the URL/URI/IRI spec itself, which I doubt will
> happen.

Why not? This is exactly what we have discussed at the F2F meeting, read 
http://www.w3.org/2010/11/02-mediafrag-minutes.html#item05. This has 
lead to "ACTION-197: Raphaël to also add in the intro of Section 5 a 
paragraph explaining the optimistic processing of fragments (using 
ranges in seconds)". This is a proposal, but I think worth to investigate.

> Again, the issue Silvia brought up was specifically if we could use MF
> on web pages, i.e. with HTML. http://example.com/video.webm#t=1 should
> just work, whether in <video src> or in the address bar.

Assume that the optimistic processing of fragments is implemented by 
browsers, just for the time dimension (95% of the use cases) using range 
requests expressed in seconds, then, before knowing what the resource 
would be, the browser has issued a range request:
   - if this is a video, then, great it works.
   - if this is a html page, scroll to the section id
   - if this is a html page embedding a video (e.g. a Youtube page), and 
that there is no section id "t=...", then play the video from t
Just a silly proposal.

   Raphaël

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