The @w3c Media #WorkingGroup published 3 first public working drafts to expand media support on the Web: Media Capabilities, Picture-in-Picture, and Media Session Standard.
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1) The Media Capabilities spec. answers questions such as: "Can the user agent render High-Dynamic Range (#HDR) content?", allowing to choose the media content sent to the user accordingly: w3.org/TR/media-capabilities…
Feb 3, 2020 · 4:52 PM UTC
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... note it answers "Can" questions, not "Should" questions, addressed by other specs. For instance, CSS Media Queries helps answer the question "Should I rather send content that uses the p3 or sRGB gamut?" when the user agent supports both
drafts.csswg.org/mediaquerie…
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... the Media Capabilities spec's editors are @mounirlamouri, Chris Cunningham and @vi_dot_cpp
The work happens in github.com/w3c/media-capabil…
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2) The Picture-in-Picture (PiP) mode is becoming increasingly popular to watch videos while continuing to interact with other content sites or applications. The Picture-in-Picture specification creates an #API surface for it: w3.org/TR/picture-in-picture…
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... the Picture-in-Picture spec's editors are @mounirlamouri and François Beaufort. Issue tracking is happening here: github.com/w3c/picture-in-pi…
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3) In the native world, a music #app shares info about what's playing (title, artist, album...), and provide media controls (play/pause, back/forward...). The Media Session #API allows web apps to integrate with the system as well: w3.org/TR/mediasession/
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... More explanations about the MediaSession #API are in github.com/w3c/mediasession/…. The spec's editors are @mounirlamouri
and Rebecca Sterling Hughes