On 22 Mar 2007, at 20:53, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
Sorry to jump into this conversation at such a late point, but I only just joined the mailing list.About 8 years ago, we had the idea of using fragment offsets to start playing from offsets of media files. However, in discussions with the URI standardisation team at W3C it turned out that fragment offsets are only being seen by the UA that sends them, so they will never reach the web server.
There's a good discussion about that here: http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q2/0551.html (read through the rest of the thread for more info)
This makes it impossible to use them for "play from this offset" since obviously the offsetting should be done by the server and avoid downloading the bunch of data that comes before the offset point.
But it doesn't stop the UA from taking cues from the markup (such as my gegenschein example from yesterday) and generating a query such as ?start=17:33. They don't have to request the exact value of the src attribute.
- Nicholas.
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