- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:47:32 -0700
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 4:08 AM, Philip J?genstedt<philipj at opera.com> wrote: > On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:48:59 +0200, Silvia Pfeiffer > <silviapfeiffer1 at gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Dr. Markus Walther<walther at svox.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: >>>> >>>> 2009/8/14 Dr. Markus Walther <walther at svox.com>: >>>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>>> The .start/.end properties were dropped in favor of media fragments, >>>>>> which the Media Fragments Working Group is producing a spec for. >>>>> >>>>> Who decided this? Has this decision been made public on this list? >>>>> >>>>>> It will >>>>>> be something like http://www.example.com/movie.mov#t=12.33,21.16 >>>>> >>>>> var audioObject = new Audio(); >>>>> audioObject.src >>>>> >>>>> ='data:audio/x-wav;base64,UklGRiIAAABXQVZFZm10IBAAAAABAAEAIlYAAESsAAACABAAZGF0Yf7///8AAAAA....'; >>>>> // play entire audio >>>>> audioObject.play(); >>>>> // play (0.54328,0.72636) media fragment >>>>> ????? >>>> >>>> Not in this way. In fact, the new way will be much much simpler and >>>> does not require javascript. >>> >>> With the code snippet given I was pointing out that it is not obvious >>> (to me at least) how the proposed media fragment solution covers data >>> URIs. If it is not meant to cover them, it is limited in a way that the >>> solution it seeks to replace is not. >> >> I see no reason why they should not be applicable to data URIs when it >> is obvious that the data URI is a media file. This has not yet been >> discussed, but would be an obvious use case. >> >> BTW: Did the start and end attribute implementations that you refer to >> cover the "data" scheme, too? > > To my knowledge/experience, there is nothing special about data URIs. Any > differences in how they work with the DOM interface or media fragments are > more than likely implementation bugs. The problem is that you can't use fragment identifiers with data-URIs. For example data:text/plain,hello world#frag Represents a text/plain document with the contents: hello world#frag It does not represent the 'frag' part of a document with the text 'hello world'. / Jonas
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