Re: minutes of 2010-09-08 teleconference

2010/9/14 Raphaël Troncy <raphael.troncy@eurecom.fr>

> Dear all,
>
>
>  I would be more than happy to follow up on that thread if we agree that
>> we don't want to integrate it into our spec. I would suggest though that
>> we put a recommendation into our spec, in particular for the browser use
>> cases - then get back to the HTML or WHATWG group and continue the
>> discussion.
>>
>
> Yes, I also think this is the way to move forward. I have discussed this
> during the last Hypertext Coordination Group telecon [1]. One of the
> suggestion people made is to find "classes" of possible rendering that could
> be detailed. We could then say that e.g. visual agents could render it this
> way, while non visual agents could do it differently.
>
> Chris Lilley wonders also if the media selection would trigger :selected in
> CSS. We definitively need to talk with the CSS WG to resolve together this
> point.
>
> I think Jack's suggestion is also a very good one, i.e. make the parameters
> of the MF url available to scripting, as attributes on the HTMLMediaElement
> interface. This is most likely a request to make to the HTML5 WG.


Is the @currentSrc attribute not sufficient?



>  So, probably the best course of action is: a more detailed
>> recommendation in our spec and a proposed spec text to add to the HTML5
>> spec. Then a discussion.
>>
>
> +1
> Chairs hat on, let's put some ACTIONS :-) I suggest that:
>  - Silvia?/Jack? complete the section 7.1,
> http://www.w3.org/TR/media-frags/#media-fragment-display, and in
> particular improve the description of what should happened in a web browser
> (or this class of UA);
>  - Silvia drafts a paragraph that could fit in the HTML5 spec and initiate
> the discussion with this WG (you could mention as well the changes required
> in the HTMLMediaElement interface)
>  - Raphael contact the CSS WG to investigate what could be done.
>
> We will naturally have a discussion about all this tomorrow.
>


I will probably not be there, but please don't let that stop the discussion.
I would, of course, be particularly interested in Philip's opinions.

Cheers,
Silvia.