Web Architecture and Codec Considerations for Audio-Visual Services

by Stephan Wenger.

The W3C is considering working towards “Video over the Web”. We assume that this involves creating a suite of W3C Recommendations, or modifications/additions to existing Recommendations, that a) from a user experience viewpoint implement and build on what’s available today as proprietary solutions (e.g. Flash, QuickTime, perhaps interactive video as available in many chat clients), b) target the emerging IP-TV/Internet-TV/Web-TV market, c) enable new services no one has dreamt of before. We believe that W3C can play a significant role in this field, especially when it comes to the tight integration of video into the current technologies used on the Web (mainly (X)HTML, CSS, DOM, JavaScript). Proposed technologies like the video element in HTML5 are certainly only a first step to tighter integration. [via]

http://www.w3.org/2007/08/video/positions/Nok...