- From: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 22:25:16 +0200
- To: Eric Carlson <eric.carlson@apple.com>
- Cc: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On 12 April 2011 22:13, Eric Carlson <eric.carlson@apple.com> wrote: > First, meta-data is stored and interpreted differently in different media file formats so this would have to be done for every format. This doesn't necessarily follow, in fact I'd turn it around - if there was a generic API for access to metadata, the material could be exposed consistently for any formats that were supported. > Therefore I it is out of scope for the HTML WG. There is already a model specified for media elements, for example a media element may have text tracks which have labels. This is specified without dependence on any specific formats. The same approach could easily be extended to include other pieces of metadata. Cheers, Danny. -- http://danny.ayers.name
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