- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:52:14 -0800
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: whatwg <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>, Nils Dagsson Moskopp <nils@dieweltistgarnichtso.net>
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > On Sat, 24 Nov 2012, Nils Dagsson Moskopp wrote: >> Use Case Description: >> >> Linking to specific fragments of media is possible via media fragment >> URIs [1]. However, it is not possible to apply a link to embedded >> media declaratively, for example to link to a specific point in time >> for a media element on a page. >> >> [1] <http://www.w3.org/TR/media-frags/> > > Basically, you're saying you have a Web page with a single "major" <video> > or <audio> element in it, e.g. the YouTube watch page, and you want to be > able to link to that page with a fragment identifier that causes the video > to start playing at a particular time, without any scripts involved? > > Or is this just an internal-to-the-page thing? As in, you want to be able > to, from within a page, cause a media element to seek to a specific time, > in response to user interaction, without script? > > Or is relying on scripting ok? Both of these are useful. The first is Youtube's behavior today (implemented with JS parsing the hash for something that looks like a time media fragment), which is obviously useful. The second is great for adding "section" or "bookmark" links - the use-case is obviously the same as using hash-links to target sections in a normal HTML page. Scripting is about as acceptable as using <a data-target="foo" onclick="document.getElementByID(this.dataset.target).scrollIntoView()">...</a> is for implementing hash-links. ~TJ
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