- From: Conrad Parker <conrad@metadecks.org>
- Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:17:25 +0900
- To: Raphaël Troncy <Raphael.Troncy@cwi.nl>
- Cc: Michael Hausenblas <michael.hausenblas@deri.org>, Media Fragment <public-media-fragment@w3.org>
2009/4/29 Raphaël Troncy <Raphael.Troncy@cwi.nl>: > - The ',' is mandatory in case a time segment is specified, consequently, > TC0008 is not a legal media fragment URI. The output should be: the whole > resource is sent and the UA seeks to 10s. > > The various empty time/segment/track/id test cases need indeed to be further > discussed. > >> + TC0008, though desirable, will currently fail due to our MF Grammar > > Yes. > Actually, TC0008 and TC0009 captures the same thing ... i.e., do not break > the current behavior of the hash when one does not enter the media frag URI > syntax. Is there any particular reason for not allowing this "legacy deep linking"? I'd suggest there is a use-case for this, where someone wants to point to the start of an interesting scene, or a link that skips the trailers. It actually takes quite a bit more manual work to decide on an end point, and I think it would be fair to imply an end-point of "the end of the resource" if none is explicitly given. In any case, "the end of the resource" is something already known by the server, so it's a bit redundant (even inaccurate) to force a document author to find it out and encode it in the URL. To clarify, if the resource on the server is 20s in duration, then I think the offsets t=10 and t=10,20 should produce the same result. Just today I found this interesting offset: http://www.archive.org/download/Mushroom_Attack/Mushroom_Attack.ogv?t=1:13:00 and, really, the movie just gets better and better from that point onwards. Do I really need to define an end point? I wish it would never end! but alas, as with all stories involving mutant fungus, it does. Conrad.
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