Is Media Fragments still used?

[severo]

I wonder if some of you are using Media Fragments (#t=10,20 for example, or the more esoteric #xywh=100,100,10,10). Please give examples, references or anecdotes if you do (or did).

I wrote a small notebook about it for reference.

My hope was that HTMLImageElement and HTMLVideoElement (or any other native object) could give access to that information, but it’s not the case. I could only find https://github.com/tomayac/Media-Fragments-URI/.

[mootari]

I’ve never heard of them before, but it seems that support is very spotty at best, and probably not something to rely on. To add some links:

• caniuse.com (raw data); the referenced section on MDN no longer exists
• Google developer docs
• MDN mentions:
  • VideoTrack.id
  • AudioTrack.id
  • indirect mention of fragment support for HTMLMediaElement.src
• old YouTube announcement (2008), may have been the originator of the working group
• Working Group page (closed in 2013 after releasing the latest draft)
• scroll-to-text-fragment drew inspiration from media fragments
• Chromium (Blink) tests for media fragments. The parser code hasn’t been touched in years, apart from some general fixes.
• window.location.fragmentDirective might be something to keep an eye on. If MF get a revival or extended support, it might happen there (disclaimer: this is my uninformed guess).

[severo]

Thanks a lot for the references and the comments!

[severo]

I discover that you can specify a fragment in CSV:

http://example.com/data.csv#row=5-7

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7111#section-2

(It’s not implemented in d3-fetch’s d3.csv :P)