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 displa

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 don

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 > > d

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 t

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 lat

Re: [whatwg] re-thinking "cue ranges"

2008-07-11 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 available

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 ha

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 p

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 http://www.w