Re: great news from YouTube on frag addressing

Hi Jack,

So, I tried this and you need a really long video to trigger it. I did
it on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_UyVmITiYQ the Google Wave demo.
Browsed to a different video and came back. Then checked the cookies
(which I suspected how they would do it in the current given browser
capabilities). Here it is:

Cookie: FcZDK.resume
Value: v_UyVmITiYQ:2553

I believe the 2553 is the time offset that I stopped at in seconds: 42:33 .

However, I don't think we need to have to worry about this, since it's
not done with URLs.

We could, instead, propose to Browser vendors to implement for videos
and audio files (that are not on a html page) to use temporal URIs in
their browsing history rather than the URI to the start of a
video/audio file. This is within our capabilities.

It would not solve the problem that YouTube has solved, because it
relates to a video on a Web page and I don't think that can be done
any differently.

Cheers,
Silvia.

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 5:14 AM, Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl> wrote:
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> On 19 sep 2009, at 11:02, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
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>> More news from YouTube:
>> http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2009/09/release-notes-91709.html
>>
>> One new feature they added relates to your history of watching videos.
>>
>> "Resume where you left off: Let's say you're watching an epic (read:
>> longer than 20 minutes) video, and you get distracted and click away.
>> The next time you return to the video, it will resume where you left
>> off watching, assuming you've watched more than one minute of the
>> video and there are more than three minutes left."
>
>
> How does this work? It doesn't seem to say in the blog message...
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> And: it may be important to us. Because if they have some contrived
> implementation that the same URL will position to where you left off the
> previous time (through some magic with cookies or something) it may mean we
> have to cater for this case. Of course, one hopes that this isn't how they
> implemented it, but...
> --
> 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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Received on Monday, 21 September 2009 03:31:24 UTC