- From: Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl>
- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:34:07 +0200
- To: Media Fragment <public-media-fragment@w3.org>
Would it be a good idea if we separate two issues: the functionality we want from media fragments and the external representation of that functionality? This way, we could first decide on a list of the things we would like our eventual solution to be able to do without worrying about whether this can be done through HTTP headers already or needs URL adornment or so. We could then also investigate what existing technology already handles that functionality, and how. The functionality wanted already poses a number of questions: - Do we want to select only continuous sections or allow discontinuous selection too? - Do we want only temporal selection or also spatial? - If we want spatial too, only rectangular or do we want free shapes? - If we want spatial, are the coordinates static over time? - How about discontinuous spatial selections? - Do we want selection of substreams? - Do we want only out-of-context selection (crop) or also in-context (in-point/out-point)? - If we also want in-context selection, does this mean we want optional client-side selection too? These are just a couple of design choices I can think of while typing this message, there's probably heaps more if we really think about the issues. -- Jack Jansen, <Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma Goldman
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