Hi Marghanita, first of all: WhatWG is a collection of Web developers and Browser developers (mostly Firefox, Opera and some guys from Apple), who are developing not only the specs of HTML5, but also software to demonstrate the ideas.
It is very much a technical effort, so if we have any input from SLUG people as to what is wrong with HTML4 and needs to be fixed in HTML5, but isn't yet in the current HTML5-spec, then that should totally be sent to the whatwg mailing list. As for the question about Annodex: imagine if all video on the Web had time-aligned annotations that provide information about sections of audio/video and you could directly address any offset inside that file with a URL. Google could e.g. return to you links to offsets in long talks that relate to your query. You can e.g. send a URL to your friends to a specific time point in a video. And you could e.g. create a new video from published video at different locations on the web simply by creating a list of URLs to sections in these videos. Also, you could publish video as an integral part of your Web page with total control in javascript over the video. Well: that's some of the things that Annodex enables. And I hope it explains some of the power it provides to the Web. Shane's recent talk at SLUG is actually much more comprehensive and would be great to review if you are interested in Annodex. Cheers, Silvia. On 7/31/07, Marghanita da Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: > > I'm active on the WhatWG specification group. This is a nice > > development, also for Annodex, since it may come in the door > > indirectly through standardisation of Theora as the baseline codec. > > Let's see if MS and Apple will allow that to happen. > > Hi Silvia, > > Perhaps you could elaborate on what Annodex offers in this context? > > Also, I was contemplating providing feedback. Is there any value in providing > a > co-ordinated submission on behalf of SLUG? If there was interest I would be > happy to co-ordinate drafting. > > Marghanita > > > > > Cheers, > > Silvia. > > > > On 27 Jul, 10:42, Marghanita da Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> <snip> > >> > >>> Editors: > >>> Ian Hickson, Google, Inc. > >>> David Hyatt, Apple, Inc. > >>> Abstract > >>> This specification defines the 5th major revision of the core language of > >>> the World Wide Web, HTML. In this version, new features are introduced to > >>> help Web application authors, new elements are introduced based on > >>> research into prevailing authoring practices, and special attention has > >>> been given to defining clear conformance criteria for user agents in an > >>> effort to improve interoperability. > >>> Status of this document > >>> This section describes the status of this document at the time of its > >>> publication. Other documents may supersede this document. A list of > >>> current W3C publications and the latest revision of this technical report > >>> can be found in the W3C technical reports index athttp://www.w3.org/TR/. > >>> If you wish to make comments regarding this document, please send them to > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (subscribe, archives) or [EMAIL PROTECTED] (subscribe, > >>> archives). All feedback is welcome. > >> <snip> > >> > >>> 3.14.7.1. Video and audio codecs for video elements > >>> User agents may support any video and audio codecs and container formats. > >>> User agents should support Ogg Theora video and Ogg Vorbis audio, as well > >>> as the Ogg container format. [THEORA] [VORBIS] [OGG] > >> <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/> > >> > >> More on Open/Linux OGG/Theora/Video at > >> <http://www.ramin.com.au/linux/acs-os-sig.html> > >> <http://www.ramin.com.au/linux/creativecommons-fedora-openvide-contest...> > >> <http://www.ramin.com.au/linux/slug-bootcamp-19may2007-videoeditors.shtml> > >> <http://www.ramin.com.au/linux/slug-bootcamp-19may2007-knoppix.shtml> > >> > >> Marghanita > >> -- > >> Marghanita da Cruzhttp://www.ramin.com.au > >> Phone: 0414 869202 > >> > >> -- > >> SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -http://slug.org.au/ > >> Subscription info and FAQs:http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > > > > > -- > Marghanita da Cruz > http://www.ramin.com.au > Phone: 0414 869202 > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
