Media Fragments URI Specification, 2nd Last Call published

Dear all,

The W3C news: http://www.w3.org/News/2011.html#entry-9038

"The Media Fragments Working Group has published a Last Call Working 
Draft of Media Fragments URI 1.0. Audio and video resources on the World 
Wide Web are currently treated as "foreign" objects, which can only be 
embedded using a plugin that is capable of decoding and interacting with 
the media resource. Specific media servers are generally required to 
provide for server-side features such as direct access to time offsets 
into a video without the need to retrieve the entire resource. Support 
for such media fragment access varies between different media formats 
and inhibits standard means of dealing with such content on the Web. 
This specification provides for a media-format independent, standard 
means of addressing media fragments on the Web using URIs. Comments are 
welcome through 10 April."

See the stable document at 
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-media-frags-20110317/

Congrats to all!
Best regards.

   Raphaël

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Received on Thursday, 17 March 2011 23:45:30 UTC