[whatwg] exposing metadata on replaced elements (was: <video> feedback)

[Rick Waldron]

On Monday, September 17, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Rick Waldron <waldron.rick at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > While we have somewhat of a proposal for exposing metadata to media
> > > elements through the W3C media annotations WG [1] with the
> > > getMediaProperty()
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > If the function is going to retrieve meta data, why is it named with words
> > that don't include "meta" or "data"?
> > 
> > Additionally, is it possible to avoid making the API async? This seems like
> > async for the sake of it. If this data is actually the meta data of the
> > media resource, then it make sense for this to be readily available after
> > any loadedmetadata event and therefore can be accesse via sync API.
> > 
> 
> 
> I agree - which is why I suggested to just use that work as an
> inspiration and not take it at face value. That WG has done extensive
> analysis of media metadata that is exposed by different media formats,
> which is useful to come up with a solution that works for UAs. Their
> solution was not directly meant to be used in UAs, I believe.
> 
> 


That's great news, thanks for the clarification. 

Rick 
> 
> Cheers,
> Silvia.
> 
>