- From: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 14:46:44 +0200
- To: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Cc: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>, Leonard Rosenthol <lrosenth@adobe.com>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
> On Apr 7, 2011, at 0:42 , Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
> I think that what the browsers should do for metadata should match what they do for tracks and media-data; be as format-agnostic as possible. I don't see any reason why simple questions, such as "what is the title of this work?", "what is its copyright status, if any?", "what is the role of this track?" shouldn't be answerable without any assumption of the container or metadata format.
Absolutely, you've succinctly put what I was trying say in my initial post!
In the unlikely case that the application needs to know more about the
container or metadata format, it has the resource and its media type
to play with. Should it be deemed necessary, there's nothing to stop
name-value pairs like e.g. video.meta("metadata-format") = "XMP" which
could allow further out-of-band interpretation of the resource's
representation.
Cheers,
Danny.
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