Re: Systematic access to media/plugin metadata

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 22:42 +1000, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
>> The Media
>> Annotations WG have identified a large set of files that have such
>> metadata, see http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-mediaont-10-20100608/#mapping-table
>> .

This is actually a better list: http://www.w3.org/TR/mediaont-10/

> From the mediaont spec itself, it's unclear what kind of products are
> expected to implement it. Is the spec expected to apply to browsers in
> some way?

Use cases are here: http://www.w3.org/TR/media-annot-reqs/

(note: I am not defending or supporting these specs - just mentioning
them as further information)


>> I was only referring to the abstract concept of encapsulated metadata.
>
> Well, you named one concrete encapsulation.

Correction: Danny named it as an example and I referred to it.
(Just being picky. :-)

Cheers,
Silvia.

Received on Tuesday, 12 April 2011 02:07:36 UTC