At 11:42 +1000 1/05/09, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
re c): It depends on how the UA displays it. If the UA displays the 5s offset as the beginning of the video, then the user cannot easily jump to 0s offset. I thought this was the whole purpose of the discussion: whether we should encourage UAs to display just the addressed segment in the timeline (which makes sense for a 5sec extract from a 2 hour video) or whether we encourage UAs to display the timeline of the full resource only.
I think we came to a slightly more abstract conclusion, that the UA focuses the user's initial attention on the indicated fragment.
[And we are silent about how it does that, and also about how easy it is to look elsewhere.]
I only tried to clarify the differences for the UA and what the user gets, supporting an earlier suggestion that UAs may want to have a means for switching between full timeline and segment timeline display. Ultimately, it's a UA problem and not a HTML5 problem.
Exactly, agreed. -- David Singer Multimedia Standards, Apple Inc.
