[transition] FPWD Request for Media Capabilities

From https://github.com/w3c/transitions/issues/213

# Document title, URLs, estimated publication date
* Title: Media Capabilities
* URL of ED to publish: https://w3c.github.io/media-capabilities/
* GitHub: https://github.com/w3c/media-capabilities
* To be published at: https://www.w3.org/TR/media-capabilities/ (does not exist yet)
* Estimated publication date: whenever possible. 30 January 2020?

# Abstract
This specification intends to provide APIs to allow websites to make an optimal decision when picking media content for the user. The APIs will expose information about the decoding and encoding capabilities for a given format but also output capabilities to find the best match based on the device’s display.

# Status
This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. Other documents may supersede this document. A list of current W3C publications and the latest revision of this technical report can be found in the W3C technical reports index at http://www.w3.org/TR/.

This document was published by the Media Working Group as a Working Draft. This document is intended to become a W3C Recommendation. Feedback and comments on this specification are welcome. Please use Github issues. Discussions may also be found in the public-media-wg@w3.org archives.

This document is a First Public Working Draft. 

Publication as a First Public Working Draft does not imply endorsement by the W3C Membership. This is a draft document and may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite this document as other than work in progress. 

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This document is governed by the 1 March 2019 W3C Process Document. 

# Is it a delta specification intended to become a W3C Recommendation?
No

# Link to group's decision to request transition
https://github.com/w3c/media-capabilities/issues/142

# Information about implementations known to the Working Group
[Early implementations in Chrome and Firefox](https://caniuse.com/#feat=mdn-api_mediacapabilities) 

Received on Tuesday, 28 January 2020 10:58:00 UTC