- From: dean blackketter <dean@corp.webtv.net>
- Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 13:22:56 -0800
- To: "Rob Glidden" <robg@quadramix.com>
- Cc: <www-tv@w3.org>
At 11:15 AM 11/5/98 -0800, Rob Glidden wrote: >I think standardizing the naming conventions is not necessarily the critical >path, it is the "level of indirection" to "find" particular resources that >needs to be defined, enabled, or standardized. > >If you can query the URI for what resources it contains (IE if it is an XML >data structure in itself -- ie a sub DOM) -- the level of indirection that >is needed can be built. > >If an author can say, in essence, to the cache or streaming resource -- so >do you have pictureX available for display? Is it coming soon? What >pictures do you have, and which are available to be subscribed to? Then an >author can work with this. > >If the author can say -- so what channels are available on this streaming >resource -- give me a text based list so I can present it to the user so >they can select one -- then this could work. That would be great, except it's important for humans to be able to write something like: <a href="tv:nbc">Watch NBC</a> How this gets resolved is the real problem. -dean ------------------------------- Dean Blackketter WebTV Networks, Inc. 1295 Charleston Road Mountain View CA 94043 <mailto:dean@corp.WebTV.net> Work: (650) 614-5521 VM & Fax: (415) 680-2357 Home: (415) 863-5737 Mobile: (415) 819-6564
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