Re: Public feedback on HTML5 video

Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
> ...
> In Ogg and Annodex we have used a HTTP parameter called
> X-Content-Duration to communicate the duration of a video to a user
> agent. It may be an idea to introduce / implement this more widely for
> any content type, since typically it is not much of a problem for a
> server extension to calculate the duration of a video, but the user
> agent has to do all sorts of acrobatics to find out such. There is
> just the issue of creating server extensions...
> ...

*Please* do not introduce "X-*" headers. "X-" doesn't have any special 
meaning in message headers; see 
<http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3864#section-2.1> for details on 
registration procedures.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Monday, 28 December 2009 11:32:44 UTC