Re: [whatwg] re-thinking cue ranges

2008-07-22 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Dave Singer wrote: One of the features proposed for the next version of the video API is chapter markers and other embedded timed metadata, with corresponding callbacks for authors to hook into. Would that resolve the problem you mention? It may be that if we

Re: [whatwg] re-thinking cue ranges

2008-07-22 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 09:58 +, Ian Hickson wrote: On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Dave Singer wrote: On Sat, 12 Jul 2008, Philip Jgenstedt wrote: Like Dave, I am not terribly enthusiastic about the current cue ranges spec, which strikes me adding a fair amount of complexity and yet doesn't

Re: [whatwg] re-thinking cue ranges

2008-07-22 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, Philip J�genstedt wrote: What are the use cases you think are basic? It's unclear to me what isn't being solved. Here's one use case, a slide deck: The most obvious use case in my mind is displaying captions/subtitles. I'd much, much ratio subtitles were done by

Re: [whatwg] re-thinking cue ranges

2008-07-22 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 22:00 +, Ian Hickson wrote: On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, Philip Jgenstedt wrote: What are the use cases you think are basic? It's unclear to me what isn't being solved. Here's one use case, a slide deck: The most obvious use case in my mind is displaying

Re: [whatwg] re-thinking cue ranges

2008-07-15 Thread Silvia Pfeiffer
Hi Philip, Dave, all, I agree with Philip and Dave that we need a simple way to include the cue ranges concept into video for video authors. As one of the authors of Annodex, I have been meaning to look over the HTML5 video element for a while and examine how it's details works - sorry for my

Re: [whatwg] re-thinking cue ranges

2008-07-12 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
Just to add some of my thought on cue ranges. Like Dave, I am not terribly enthusiastic about the current cue ranges spec, which strikes me adding a fair amount of complexity and yet doesn't solve the basic use case in straightforward manner. If I were a content author and looked at the

Re: [whatwg] re-thinking cue ranges

2008-07-09 Thread Dave Singer
OK, some comments back on the cue range design. Sorry for the summer-vacation-induced delay in response! At 1:00 + 12/06/08, Ian Hickson wrote: In the current HTML5 draft cue ranges are available using a DOM API. This way of doing ranges is less than ideal. First of all, it is

Re: [whatwg] re-thinking cue ranges

2008-05-23 Thread Dave Singer
At 14:20 +1000 23/05/08, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: Hi Dave, If the W3C standardises time ranges through a URI approach, would there still be a need to have a specification in the DOM or the HTML code? I think the two have different purposes and use-cases, don't they? I am talking about this

[whatwg] re-thinking cue ranges

2008-05-22 Thread Dave Singer
WARNING: this email is sent to both the WhatWG and W3C Public HTML list, as it is a proposal. Please be careful about where you reply/follow-up to. The editors may have a preference (and if they do, I hope they express it). The following discussion is also in the attached proposal, but

Re: [whatwg] re-thinking cue ranges

2008-05-22 Thread Silvia Pfeiffer
Hi Dave, If the W3C standardises time ranges through a URI approach, would there still be a need to have a specification in the DOM or the HTML code? I am talking about this planned activity http://www.w3.org/2008/01/media-fragments-wg.html and a scheme akin to the one mentioned here