- From: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 08:14:04 -0700
At 11:42 +1000 1/05/09, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: >re c): >It depends on how the UA displays it. If the UA displays the 5s offset >as the beginning of the video, then the user cannot easily jump to 0s >offset. I thought this was the whole purpose of the discussion: >whether we should encourage UAs to display just the addressed segment >in the timeline (which makes sense for a 5sec extract from a 2 hour >video) or whether we encourage UAs to display the timeline of the full >resource only. I think we came to a slightly more abstract conclusion, that the UA focuses the user's initial attention on the indicated fragment. [And we are silent about how it does that, and also about how easy it is to look elsewhere.] >I only tried to clarify the differences for the UA and >what the user gets, supporting an earlier suggestion that UAs may want >to have a means for switching between full timeline and segment >timeline display. Ultimately, it's a UA problem and not a HTML5 >problem. Exactly, agreed. -- David Singer Multimedia Standards, Apple Inc.
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