Re: Expressing complex regions with media fragments - use cases + possible solution

On 8 sep 2010, at 02:51, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
> I have, however, a pretty big caveat with standardising this approach: right now we are discussing with the browser vendors on how to present spatial media fragment URIs. There is a preference to use them for splicing pictures, i.e. for rendering only the referenced image or video region.
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> I do not believe that matches your intentions here. IIUC your intentions here are to only have a means to provide annotations to regions. I think this is more of a "image map" type approach than an "image splicing" approach - correct me if I'm wrong. 

We've got to be careful here: browser vendors tend to think that the whole world revolves around the browser:-) A media fragment is basically nothing more than a specification of a portion of a video (audio, image) resource, and even though we give guidelines on how to present such a fragment in the browser that doesn't mean it's the only application of media fragments. I would assume that the Media Annotation folks couldn't care less about presentation: they just want to be able to point at something inside the video.
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Received on Wednesday, 8 September 2010 09:01:33 UTC