On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:34:55 +0200, Dr. Markus Walther <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi,
please note that with cue ranges removed, the last HTML 5 method to
perform audio subinterval selection is gone.
AFAIK, when dropping support for 'start' and 'end' attributes it was
noted on this list that cue ranges would provide a replacement to
dynamically select, say, a 3-second range from a 1-hour audio source.
So, if cue ranges will indeed be dropped, could browser vendors and
standards people consider putting 'start' and 'end' back in, just like
Safari had it for a while (albeit buggy)?
The .start/.end properties were dropped in favor of media fragments, which
the Media Fragments Working Group is producing a spec for. It will be
something like http://www.example.com/movie.mov#t=12.33,21.16
See http://www.w3.org/2008/01/media-fragments-wg.html and
http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Fragments/wiki/Syntax#Examples
Actually, out of curiousity: could gapless concatenation of several
audio objects be added as well, e.g.
audioObject1.append(audioObject2)
or even
audioObject.join([audioObject1,audioObject2,...,audioObjectN)
There has been much discussion about audio "canvas" API:s and I trust this
could fit into that scope. View source at
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/video.html#video
and search for "v2" and you'll find some of these ideas.
--
Philip Jägenstedt
Opera Software
