Re: [whatwg] HTML tags.Panorama, Photo Sphere, Surround shots

• From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
• Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 10:10:08 -0800
• To: Biju <bijumaillist@gmail.com>
• Cc: whatwg <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>
• Message-ID: <CAAWBYDDEWv3h2C8O4NqrcENBf1NqNoHJkHjVNXqGO=0akgn0+Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Biju <bijumaillist@gmail.com> wrote:
> New cameras/phone cameras comes with Panorama, Photo Sphere, Surround
> shot options. But there is no standard way to display the image on a
> webpage. Can WHATWG standardize it and provide HTML tags.
>
>
> Photo Sphere https://www.google.com/maps/about/contribute/photosphere/
> Surround shot http://www.samsung.com/us/support/faq/FAQ00057110/74008

These are just alternate image formats, yes?  In that case, browsers
can expand their <img> support to allow pointing to these kinds of
files.  They'd need some sort of native controls on the <img> element,
I suppose.

~TJ

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