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- Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 03:08:35 +0000
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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=13094 Summary: First there was the <img> tag. Now, with HTML5, <audio> and <video> tags are being introduced (which also have the helpful controls attribute). This covers the 3 most important media types, namely pictures, music, and videos. However, there is a fourth ty Product: HTML WG Version: unspecified Platform: Other URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top OS/Version: other Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch ReportedBy: contributor@whatwg.org QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org, public-html@w3.org Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top Comment: First there was the <img> tag. Now, with HTML5, <audio> and <video> tags are being introduced (which also have the helpful controls attribute). This covers the 3 most important media types, namely pictures, music, and videos. However, there is a fourth type of digital media that is quickly becoming prevalent: electronic publications such as ebooks and documents. As a matter of fact, just like the other 3 media types have their own common codecs, the dominant electronic publication codec/format is ePub. If there was such new element, for instance it could be called <document>, it could be used to display ebooks and other ePub documents (such as user manuals, academic papers, etc.) in a webpage. And if there was an associated controls attribute, it could be used to add next and previous button controls to switch between pages. Just as the other media elements may help us eliminate the need to use proprietary plug-ins such as Adobe Flash, a <document> element could help eliminate the need for using other proprietary plug-ins, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader for PDF documents. It seems to me that such new element would be very popular, especially now that ereaders and ebooks have been made widely available from companies such as Apple (iPad), Google (Google eBookstore), Amazon (Kindle), Sony (Sony Reader), and Barnes and Noble (Nook). Posted from: 98.203.243.109 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0) -- Configure bugmail: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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