Re: Selectors as URIs?

Dear Rob,

> The concerns about the approach are documented here:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-model/#fragment-uris

I wanted, some time ago, to suggest a change in the example used in this 
section, so that a temporal media fragment URI is used in the example 
instead of a spatial media fragment. The reason is simply that 
http://example.org/image.jpg#xywh=100,100,300,300 links are much less 
used than http://example.org/video#t=10,40 ones which are now very popular.

> My personal position is that selectors should not be turned into
> fragments, because (especially) that would break the rules of fragment
> identifiers as laid out in RFC 3986:
>
> The semantics of a fragment identifier are defined by the set of representations that might result from a retrieval action on the primary resource.

This statement (from RFC 3986) is correct but I disagree with your 
interpretation. You will not break any rules in the vast majority of 
cases for the simple reason than most of the media-types do NOT define 
the semantics of the fragment identifier. Hence, no semantics is defined 
for audio/*, image/*, video/*. For HTML, XML or SVG, W3C has control for 
defining the semantics of the fragment identifier. EPUB seems to be 
willing to get guidance to define this semantics. There is also work on 
identifiers for CSV. Etc.
Best regards.

   Raphaël

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