- From: Martin Atkins <mart@degeneration.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:04:12 +0000
Sander Tekelenburg wrote: > > Something else concerning first-class Netizenry: I'd like to see the spec to > require UAs support implicit anchors, so that one can link to a specific > startpoint: <URL:http://domain.example/movie.ogg#21:08>, to mean "fetch the > movie and start playing it at 21 minutes 8 seconds into the movie". (Or > better yet, if this can be achieved reliably, don't fetch the entire movie, > but only from 21:08 on.) > When using this with HTML we don't link to #line50, or #paragraph3, or #section9, we link to an anchor in the document itself. We do this to avoid tying the link to a specific representation of the resource, and to allow the document to change to a certain extent without breaking the links. I don't know of a video container format that allows named anchors to be specified, though. The interpretation of fragment identifiers on video is a bit out of scope for an HTML specification regardless of whether it's specified as time or a bookmark. If someone invents a video format that allows named anchors, they can write in their own specification how fragment identifiers are to be interpreted. It's none of HTML's business.
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