- From: Nicholas Shanks <contact@nickshanks.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 22:28:31 +0000
On 22 Mar 2007, at 20:53, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: > Sorry to jump into this conversation at such a late point, but I only > just joined the mailing list. > > About 8 years ago, we had the idea of using fragment offsets to start > playing from offsets of media files. However, in discussions with the > URI standardisation team at W3C it turned out that fragment offsets > are only being seen by the UA that sends them, so they will never > reach the web server. There's a good discussion about that here: http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q2/0551.html (read through the rest of the thread for more info) > This makes it impossible to use them for "play > from this offset" since obviously the offsetting should be done by the > server and avoid downloading the bunch of data that comes before the > offset point. But it doesn't stop the UA from taking cues from the markup (such as my gegenschein example from yesterday) and generating a query such as ?start=17:33. They don't have to request the exact value of the src attribute. - Nicholas. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2157 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20070322/4aba4ba5/attachment.bin>
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