Re: Media Fragments support has landed in Chromium

Dear Thomas,

> Following WebKit, Media Fragments support has now landed in Chromium,
> too [0a]. This is not really surprising, since the Media Fragments
> "bug" (feature request) [1a] was closed a couple of days ago in
> WebKit, thanks to Apple's Eric Carlson.

Which version of Chrome did we need to see that?
For example, http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/mediafrag/ works well on 
Firefox 9+,  but not in my Chrome 16+ :-(

> ===
> Support YouTube in-video deep links following the W3C Media Fragments standard
> ---
> YouTube currently allows for placing deep links following the
> #t={digits}m:{digits}s format as documented in [1]. An example is
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc9xq-TVyHI#t=01m45s.
>
> Now that Firefox [3], WebKit / Chromium [4] support temporal
> dimensions of the W3C Media Fragments URI specification [2], I think
> it might be a good idea in YouTube to officially support the format as
> defined by the W3C specification, alongside the current format, with
> the long-term goal of making the W3C specified format the standard.
> Any thoughts?
>
> Full disclosure: I am a member of the W3C Media Fragments Working Group.

Thanks for this follow-up with the YouTube team! Let us know if they react.
Best regards.

   Raphaël

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Received on Thursday, 12 January 2012 09:33:30 UTC