Sander Tekelenburg wrote:
Something else concerning first-class Netizenry: I'd like to see the spec to require UAs support implicit anchors, so that one can link to a specific startpoint: <URL:http://domain.example/movie.ogg#21:08>, to mean "fetch the movie and start playing it at 21 minutes 8 seconds into the movie". (Or better yet, if this can be achieved reliably, don't fetch the entire movie, but only from 21:08 on.)
When using this with HTML we don't link to #line50, or #paragraph3, or #section9, we link to an anchor in the document itself. We do this to avoid tying the link to a specific representation of the resource, and to allow the document to change to a certain extent without breaking the links.
I don't know of a video container format that allows named anchors to be specified, though.
The interpretation of fragment identifiers on video is a bit out of scope for an HTML specification regardless of whether it's specified as time or a bookmark. If someone invents a video format that allows named anchors, they can write in their own specification how fragment identifiers are to be interpreted. It's none of HTML's business.
