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  • Les autorisations surchargées par les plugins

    27 avril 2010, par

    Mediaspip core
    autoriser_auteur_modifier() afin que les visiteurs soient capables de modifier leurs informations sur la page d’auteurs

  • Support audio et vidéo HTML5

    10 avril 2011

    MediaSPIP utilise les balises HTML5 video et audio pour la lecture de documents multimedia en profitant des dernières innovations du W3C supportées par les navigateurs modernes.
    Pour les navigateurs plus anciens, le lecteur flash Flowplayer est utilisé.
    Le lecteur HTML5 utilisé a été spécifiquement créé pour MediaSPIP : il est complètement modifiable graphiquement pour correspondre à un thème choisi.
    Ces technologies permettent de distribuer vidéo et son à la fois sur des ordinateurs conventionnels (...)

  • HTML5 audio and video support

    13 avril 2011, par

    MediaSPIP uses HTML5 video and audio tags to play multimedia files, taking advantage of the latest W3C innovations supported by modern browsers.
    The MediaSPIP player used has been created specifically for MediaSPIP and can be easily adapted to fit in with a specific theme.
    For older browsers the Flowplayer flash fallback is used.
    MediaSPIP allows for media playback on major mobile platforms with the above (...)

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  • Video watermarking with ffmpeg (output video size too big )

    22 janvier 2020, par kartik bansal

    i am running ffmpeg on video of size around 2 Mb and after watermarking them size of my video file is around 13-17 Mb. AM i doing something wrong. Please Help

    My code is

    ffmpeg -i "C:\flask\mobile_form\Videos\20191231140058_987654567.mp4" -i "C:\flask\mobile_form\resizeLogo.jpg" -filter_complex "[0:v][1:v]overlay=10:10,drawtext=text=Hello:fontsize=24:x=main_w-200:y=main_h-100,drawtext=text=World:fontsize=24:x=main_w-200:y=main_h-60" "C:\flask\mobile_form\waterMark\second.mp4"

    This is my full log, It is not giving any error but i want my output file to be smaller.

    ffmpeg version git-2020-01-15-0dc0837 Copyright (c) 2000-2020 the FFmpeg developers
     built with gcc 9.2.1 (GCC) 20200111
     configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-sdl2 --enable-fontconfig --enable-gnutls --enable-iconv --enable-libass --enable-libdav1d --enable-libbluray --enable-libfreetype --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-libshine --enable-libsnappy --enable-libsoxr --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --enable-libvpx --enable-libwavpack --enable-libwebp --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxml2 --enable-libzimg --enable-lzma --enable-zlib --enable-gmp --enable-libvidstab --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libmysofa --enable-libspeex --enable-libxvid --enable-libaom --enable-libmfx --enable-ffnvcodec --enable-cuvid --enable-d3d11va --enable-nvenc --enable-nvdec --enable-dxva2 --enable-avisynth --enable-libopenmpt --enable-amf
     libavutil      56. 38.100 / 56. 38.100
     libavcodec     58. 65.103 / 58. 65.103
     libavformat    58. 35.102 / 58. 35.102
     libavdevice    58.  9.103 / 58.  9.103
     libavfilter     7. 71.100 /  7. 71.100
     libswscale      5.  6.100 /  5.  6.100
     libswresample   3.  6.100 /  3.  6.100
     libpostproc    55.  6.100 / 55.  6.100

    Continued

     Metadata:
       encoder         : Chrome
     Duration: N/A, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A
       Stream #0:0(eng): Audio: opus, 48000 Hz, mono, fltp (default)
       Stream #0:1(eng): Video: vp8, yuv420p(progressive), 640x480, SAR 1:1 DAR 4:3, 1k tbr, 1k tbn, 1k tbc (default)
       Metadata:
         alpha_mode      : 1

     Duration: 00:00:00.04, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1727 kb/s
       Stream #1:0: Video: mjpeg (Baseline), yuvj420p(pc, bt470bg/unknown/unknown), 255x122 [SAR 120:120 DAR 255:122], 25 tbr, 25 tbn, 25 tbc
    Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file
    [Parsed_drawtext_1 @ 000001ba5309d4c0] Using "C:/WINDOWS/fonts/mingliub.ttc"
    Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file
    [Parsed_drawtext_2 @ 000001ba53051640] Using "C:/WINDOWS/fonts/mingliub.ttc"
    Stream mapping:
     Stream #0:1 (vp8) -> overlay:main (graph 0)
     Stream #1:0 (mjpeg) -> overlay:overlay (graph 0)
     drawtext (graph 0) -> Stream #0:0 (libx264)
     Stream #0:0 -> #0:1 (opus (native) -> aac (native))
    Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
    Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file
    [Parsed_drawtext_1 @ 000001ba53c06280] Using "C:/WINDOWS/fonts/mingliub.ttc"
    Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file
    [Parsed_drawtext_2 @ 000001ba53c40d40] Using "C:/WINDOWS/fonts/mingliub.ttc"
    [swscaler @ 000001ba53caf380] deprecated pixel format used, make sure you did set range correctly
    [libx264 @ 000001ba5304e240] using SAR=1/1
    [libx264 @ 000001ba5304e240] using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast SSSE3 SSE4.2 AVX FMA3 BMI2 AVX2
    [libx264 @ 000001ba5304e240] profile High, level 5.2, 4:2:0, 8-bit
    [libx264 @ 000001ba5304e240] 264 - core 159 - H.264/MPEG-4 AVC codec - Copyleft 2003-2019 - http://www.videolan.org/x264.html - options: cabac=1 ref=3 deblock=1:0:0 analyse=0x3:0x113 me=hex subme=7 psy=1 psy_rd=1.00:0.00 mixed_ref=1 me_range=16 chroma_me=1 trellis=1 8x8dct=1 cqm=0 deadzone=21,11 fast_pskip=1 chroma_qp_offset=-2 threads=15 lookahead_threads=2 sliced_threads=0 nr=0 decimate=1 interlaced=0 bluray_compat=0 constrained_intra=0 bframes=3 b_pyramid=2 b_adapt=1 b_bias=0 direct=1 weightb=1 open_gop=0 weightp=2 keyint=250 keyint_min=25 scenecut=40 intra_refresh=0 rc_lookahead=40 rc=crf mbtree=1 crf=23.0 qcomp=0.60 qpmin=0 qpmax=69 qpstep=4 ip_ratio=1.40 aq=1:1.00

    Output #0, mp4, to 'C:\Users\3427521kar\Desktop\New folder (2)\output30.mp4':
     Metadata:
       encoder         : Lavf58.35.102
       Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (libx264) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p, 640x480 [SAR 1:1 DAR 4:3], q=-1--1, 1k fps, 16k tbn, 1k tbc (default)
       Metadata:
         encoder         : Lavc58.65.103 libx264
       Side data:
         cpb: bitrate max/min/avg: 0/0/0 buffer size: 0 vbv_delay: N/A
       Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 48000 Hz, mono, fltp, 69 kb/s (default)
       Metadata:

    [libx264 @ 000001ba5304e240] Weighted P-Frames: Y:0.0% UV:0.0%
    [libx264 @ 000001ba5304e240] ref P L0: 77.1% 13.5%  8.3%  1.0%  0.0%
    [libx264 @ 000001ba5304e240] ref B L0: 75.0% 24.5%  0.5%
    [libx264 @ 000001ba5304e240] ref B L1: 94.1%  5.9%
    [libx264 @ 000001ba5304e240] kb/s:1380.55
    [aac @ 000001ba53067100] Qavg: 129.494

    here is the full log of my code

  • PHP-FFMpeg not converting (error with ffmpeg)

    13 août 2016, par Magurean Dan Sergiu

    I have installed ffmpeg server side with all the dependencies, updated it. And then installed PHP-FFMpeg with Composer. Tested that ffmpeg is instaled with a ssh conexion.

    root@host [/opt/ffmpeg]# ffmpeg
    ffmpeg version N-81322-ge8b355a Copyright (c) 2000-2016 the FFmpeg developers
    built with gcc 4.4.7 (GCC) 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-17)
    configuration: --disable-yasm
    libavutil      55. 28.100 / 55. 28.100
    libavcodec     57. 51.100 / 57. 51.100
    libavformat    57. 46.100 / 57. 46.100
    libavdevice    57.  0.102 / 57.  0.102
    libavfilter     6. 51.100 /  6. 51.100
    libswscale      4.  1.100 /  4.  1.100
    libswresample   2.  1.100 /  2.  1.100
    Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder
    usage: ffmpeg [options] [[infile options] -i infile]... {[outfile options]     outfile}...

    Use -h to get full help or, even better, run 'man ffmpeg'

    But when I try to convert a video file with a php script it throws me a very long error.
    PHP Code :

    <?PHP
    include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/vendors/install/vendor/autoload.php");
    $ffmpeg = FFMpeg\FFMpeg::create();
    $video = $ffmpeg->open($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/resources/uploads/96048/ffd3c5e349fa5745159deef163b5c253.wmv');
    $video
          ->filters()
          ->synchronize();
    $format = new FFMpeg\Format\Video\X264();
    $format->on('progress', function ($video, $format, $percentage) {
       echo "$percentage % transcoded";});
    $video
         ->save($format,$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/resources/uploads/96048/ffd3c5e349fa5745159deef163b5c253.mp4');
    ?>

    Error displayed :

    <b>Fatal error</b>:  Uncaught exception 'Alchemy\BinaryDriver\Exception\ExecutionFailureException' with message 'ffmpeg failed to execute command '/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg' '-y' '-i' '/home/user/working/resources/uploads/23097/2efeb41a1a7085a1dbd469c4895ac23e.wmv' '-async' '1' '-metadata:s:v:0' 'start_time=0' '-threads' '12' '-vcodec' 'libx264' '-acodec' 'libfaac' '-b:v' '1000k' '-refs' '6' '-coder' '1' '-sc_threshold' '40' '-flags' '+loop' '-me_range' '16' '-subq' '7' '-i_qfactor' '0.71' '-qcomp' '0.6' '-qdiff' '4' '-trellis' '1' '-b:a' '128k' '-pass' '1' '-passlogfile' '/tmp/ffmpeg-passes57ad320a1b685j794u/pass-57ad320a1b716' '/home/user/working/resources/uploads/23097/2efeb41a1a7085a1dbd469c4895ac23e.mp4'' in /home/user/working/vendors/install/vendor/alchemy/binary-driver/src/Alchemy/BinaryDriver/ProcessRunner.php:100↵Stack trace:↵#0 /home/user/working/vendors/install/vendor/alchemy/binary-driver/src/Alchemy/BinaryDriver/ProcessRunner.php(72): Alchemy\BinaryDriver\ProcessRunner-&amp;gt;doExecutionFailure(''/usr/bin/ffmpe...')↵#1 / in <b>/home/user/working/vendors/install/vendor/php-ffmpeg/php-ffmpeg/src/FFMpeg/Media/Video.php</b> on line <b>168</b><br />↵"

    Then I have took the basic code displayed upwards and ran it directly through ssh.

    '/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg' '-y' '-i' '/home/user/working/resources/uploads/23097/2efeb41a1a7085a1dbd469c4895ac23e.wmv' '-async' '1' '-metadata:s:v:0' 'start_time=0' '-threads' '12' '-vcodec' 'libx264' '-acodec' 'libfaac' '-b:v' '1000k' '-refs' '6' '-coder' '1' '-sc_threshold' '40' '-flags' '+loop' '-me_range' '16' '-subq' '7' '-i_qfactor' '0.71' '-qcomp' '0.6' '-qdiff' '4' '-trellis' '1' '-b:a' '128k' '-pass' '1' '-passlogfile' '/tmp/ffmpeg-passes57ad320a1b685j794u/pass-57ad320a1b716' '/home/user/working/resources/uploads/23097/2efeb41a1a7085a1dbd469c4895ac23e.mp4'

    And this is the response I get :

    ffmpeg version N-81322-ge8b355a Copyright (c) 2000-2016 the FFmpeg developers
     built with gcc 4.4.7 (GCC) 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-17)
     configuration: --disable-yasm
     libavutil      55. 28.100 / 55. 28.100
     libavcodec     57. 51.100 / 57. 51.100
     libavformat    57. 46.100 / 57. 46.100
     libavdevice    57.  0.102 / 57.  0.102
     libavfilter     6. 51.100 /  6. 51.100
     libswscale      4.  1.100 /  4.  1.100
     libswresample   2.  1.100 /  2.  1.100
    Guessed Channel Layout for Input Stream #0.0 : stereo
    Input #0, asf, from '/home/user/working/resources/uploads/23097/2efeb41a1a7085a1dbd469c4895ac23e.wmv':
     Metadata:
       SfOriginalFPS   : 299700
       WMFSDKVersion   : 11.0.6001.7000
       WMFSDKNeeded    : 0.0.0.0000
       comment         : Footage: Small World Productions, Inc; Tourism New Zealand | Producer: Gary F. Spradling | Music: Steve Ball
       title           : Wildlife in HD
       copyright       : © 2008 Microsoft Corporation
       IsVBR           : 0
       DeviceConformanceTemplate: AP@L3
     Duration: 00:00:30.09, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 6977 kb/s
       Stream #0:0(eng): Audio: wmav2 (a[1][0][0] / 0x0161), 44100 Hz, 2 channels, fltp, 192 kb/s
       Stream #0:1(eng): Video: vc1 (Advanced) (WVC1 / 0x31435657), yuv420p, 1280x720, 5942 kb/s, 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 1k tbn, 1k tbc
    Unknown encoder 'libx264'

    My question is what to do next ? I have wasted 3 days to make this work and this is the furthest I have come. How can I test if libx264 is installed corectly ? And if it is not installed corectly how cand I reinstal or make it work ?

  • The use cases for a element in HTML

    1er janvier 2014, par silvia

    The W3C HTML WG and the WHATWG are currently discussing the introduction of a <main> element into HTML.

    The <main> element has been proposed by Steve Faulkner and is specified in a draft extension spec which is about to be accepted as a FPWD (first public working draft) by the W3C HTML WG. This implies that the W3C HTML WG will be looking for implementations and for feedback by implementers on this spec.

    I am supportive of the introduction of a <main> element into HTML. However, I believe that the current spec and use case list don’t make a good enough case for its introduction. Here are my thoughts.

    Main use case : accessibility

    In my opinion, the main use case for the introduction of <main> is accessibility.

    Like any other users, when blind users want to perceive a Web page/application, they need to have a quick means of grasping the content of a page. Since they cannot visually scan the layout and thus determine where the main content is, they use accessibility technology (AT) to find what is known as “landmarks”.

    “Landmarks” tell the user what semantic content is on a page : a header (such as a banner), a search box, a navigation menu, some asides (also called complementary content), a footer, …. and the most important part : the main content of the page. It is this main content that a blind user most often wants to skip to directly.

    In the days of HTML4, a hidden “skip to content” link at the beginning of the Web page was used as a means to help blind users access the main content.

    In the days of ARIA, the aria @role=main enables authors to avoid a hidden link and instead mark the element where the main content begins to allow direct access to the main content. This attribute is supported by AT – in particular screen readers – by making it part of the landmarks that AT can directly skip to.

    Both the hidden link and the ARIA @role=main approaches are, however, band aids : they are being used by those of us that make “finished” Web pages accessible by adding specific extra markup.

    A world where ARIA is not necessary and where accessibility developers would be out of a job because the normal markup that everyone writes already creates accessible Web sites/applications would be much preferable over the current world of band-aids.

    Therefore, to me, the primary use case for a <main> element is to achieve exactly this better world and not require specialized markup to tell a user (or a tool) where the main content on a page starts.

    An immediate effect would be that pages that have a <main> element will expose a “main” landmark to blind and vision-impaired users that will enable them to directly access that main content on the page without having to wade through other text on the page. Without a <main> element, this functionality can currently only be provided using heuristics to skip other semantic and structural elements and is for this reason not typically implemented in AT.

    Other use cases

    The <main> element is a semantic element not unlike other new semantic elements such as <header>, <footer>, <aside>, <article>, <nav>, or <section>. Thus, it can also serve other uses where the main content on a Web page/Web application needs to be identified.

    Data mining

    For data mining of Web content, the identification of the main content is one of the key challenges. Many scholarly articles have been published on this topic. This stackoverflow article references and suggests a multitude of approaches, but the accepted answer says “there’s no way to do this that’s guaranteed to work”. This is because Web pages are inherently complex and many <div>, <p>, <iframe> and other elements are used to provide markup for styling, notifications, ads, analytics and other use cases that are necessary to make a Web page complete, but don’t contribute to what a user consumes as semantically rich content. A <main> element will allow authors to pro-actively direct data mining tools to the main content.

    Search engines

    One particularly important “data mining” tool are search engines. They, too, have a hard time to identify which sections of a Web page are more important than others and employ many heuristics to do so, see e.g. this ACM article. Yet, they still disappoint with poor results pointing to findings of keywords in little relevant sections of a page rather than ranking Web pages higher where the keywords turn up in the main content area. A <main> element would be able to help search engines give text in main content areas a higher weight and prefer them over other areas of the Web page. It would be able to rank different Web pages depending on where on the page the search words are found. The <main> element will be an additional hint that search engines will digest.

    Visual focus

    On small devices, the display of Web pages designed for Desktop often causes confusion as to where the main content can be found and read, in particular when the text ends up being too small to be readable. It would be nice if browsers on small devices had a functionality (maybe a default setting) where Web pages would start being displayed as zoomed in on the main content. This could alleviate some of the headaches of responsive Web design, where the recommendation is to show high priority content as the first content. Right now this problem is addressed through stylesheets that re-layout the page differently depending on device, but again this is a band-aid solution. Explicit semantic markup of the main content can solve this problem more elegantly.

    Styling

    Finally, naturally, <main> would also be used to style the main content differently from others. You can e.g. replace a semantically meaningless <div id=”main”> with a semantically meaningful <main> where their position is identical. My analysis below shows, that this is not always the case, since oftentimes <div id=”main”> is used to group everything together that is not the header – in particular where there are multiple columns. Thus, the ease of styling a <main> element is only a positive side effect and not actually a real use case. It does make it easier, however, to adapt the style of the main content e.g. with media queries.

    Proposed alternative solutions

    It has been proposed that existing markup serves to satisfy the use cases that <main> has been proposed for. Let’s analyse these on some of the most popular Web sites. First let’s list the propsed algorithms.

    Proposed solution No 1 : Scooby-Doo

    On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote :
    | The main content is whatever content isn’t
    | marked up as not being main content (anything not marked up with <header>,
    | <aside>, <nav>, etc).
    

    This implies that the first element that is not a <header>, <aside>, <nav>, or <footer> will be the element that we want to give to a blind user as the location where they should start reading. The algorithm is implemented in https://gist.github.com/4032962.

    Proposed solution No 2 : First article element

    On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Ian Hickson  wrote :
    | On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Ian Yang wrote :
    | >
    | > That’s a good idea. We really need an element to wrap all the <p>s,
    | > <ul>s, <ol>s, <figure>s, <table>s ... etc of a blog post.
    |
    | That’s called <article>.
    

    This approach identifies the first <article> element on the page as containing the main content. Here’s the algorithm for this approach.

    Proposed solution No 3 : An example heuristic approach

    The readability plugin has been developed to make Web pages readable by essentially removing all the non-main content from a page. An early source of readability is available. This demonstrates what a heuristic approach can perform.

    Analysing alternative solutions

    Comparison

    I’ve picked 4 typical Websites (top on Alexa) to analyse how these three different approaches fare. Ideally, I’d like to simply apply the above three scripts and compare pictures. However, since the semantic HTML5 elements <header>, <aside>, <nav>, and <footer> are not actually used by any of these Web sites, I don’t actually have this choice.

    So, instead, I decided to make some assumptions of where these semantic elements would be used and what the outcome of applying the first two algorithms would be. I can then compare it to the third, which is a product so we can take screenshots.

    Google.com

    http://google.com – search for “Scooby Doo”.

    The search results page would likely be built with :

    • a <nav> menu for the Google bar
    • a <header> for the search bar
    • another <header> for the login section
    • another <nav> menu for the search types
    • a <div> to contain the rest of the page
    • a <div> for the app bar with the search number
    • a few <aside>s for the left and right column
    • a set of <article>s for the search results
    “Scooby Doo” would find the first element after the headers as the “main content”. This is the element before the app bar in this case. Interestingly, there is a <div @id=main> already in the current Google results page, which “Scooby Doo” would likely also pick. However, there are a nav bar and two asides in this div, which clearly should not be part of the “main content”. Google actually placed a @role=main on a different element, namely the one that encapsulates all the search results.

    “First Article” would find the first search result as the “main content”. While not quite the same as what Google intended – namely all search results – it is close enough to be useful.

    The “readability” result is interesting, since it is not able to identify the main text on the page. It is actually aware of this problem and brings a warning before displaying this page :

    Readability of google.com

    Facebook.com

    https://facebook.com

    A user page would likely be built with :

    • a <header> bar for the search and login bar
    • a <div> to contain the rest of the page
    • an <aside> for the left column
    • a <div> to contain the center and right column
    • an <aside> for the right column
    • a <header> to contain the center column “megaphone”
    • a <div> for the status posting
    • a set of <article>s for the home stream
    “Scooby Doo” would find the first element after the headers as the “main content”. This is the element that contains all three columns. It’s actually a <div @id=content> already in the current Facebook user page, which “Scooby Doo” would likely also pick. However, Facebook selected a different element to place the @role=main : the center column.

    “First Article” would find the first news item in the home stream. This is clearly not what Facebook intended, since they placed the @role=main on the center column, above the first blog post’s title. “First Article” would miss that title and the status posting.

    The “readability” result again disappoints but warns that it failed :

    YouTube.com

    http://youtube.com

    A video page would likely be built with :

    • a <header> bar for the search and login bar
    • a <nav> for the menu
    • a <div> to contain the rest of the page
    • a <header> for the video title and channel links
    • a <div> to contain the video with controls
    • a <div> to contain the center and right column
    • an <aside> for the right column with an <article> per related video
    • an <aside> for the information below the video
    • a <article> per comment below the video
    “Scooby Doo” would find the first element after the headers as the “main content”. This is the element that contains the rest of the page. It’s actually a <div @id=content> already in the current YouTube video page, which “Scooby Doo” would likely also pick. However, YouTube’s related videos and comments are unlikely to be what the user would regard as “main content” – it’s the video they are after, which generously has a <div id=watch-player>.

    “First Article” would find the first related video or comment in the home stream. This is clearly not what YouTube intends.

    The “readability” result is not quite as unusable, but still very bare :

    Wikipedia.com

    http://wikipedia.com (“Overscan” page)

    A Wikipedia page would likely be built with :

    • a <header> bar for the search, login and menu items
    • a <div> to contain the rest of the page
    • an &ls ; article> with title and lots of text
    • <article> an <aside> with the table of contents
    • several <aside>s for the left column
    Good news : “Scooby Doo” would find the first element after the headers as the “main content”. This is the element that contains the rest of the page. It’s actually a <div id=”content” role=”main”> element on Wikipedia, which “Scooby Doo” would likely also pick.

    “First Article” would find the title and text of the main element on the page, but it would also include an <aside>.

    The “readability” result is also in agreement.

    Results

    In the following table we have summarised the results for the experiments :

    Site Scooby-Doo First article Readability
    Google.com FAIL SUCCESS FAIL
    Facebook.com FAIL FAIL FAIL
    YouTube.com FAIL FAIL FAIL
    Wikipedia.com SUCCESS SUCCESS SUCCESS

    Clearly, Wikipedia is the prime example of a site where even the simple approaches find it easy to determine the main content on the page. WordPress blogs are similarly successful. Almost any other site, including news sites, social networks and search engine sites are petty hopeless with the proposed approaches, because there are too many elements that are used for layout or other purposes (notifications, hidden areas) such that the pre-determined list of semantic elements that are available simply don’t suffice to mark up a Web page/application completely.

    Conclusion

    It seems that in general it is impossible to determine which element(s) on a Web page should be the “main” piece of content that accessibility tools jump to when requested, that a search engine should put their focus on, or that should be highlighted to a general user to read. It would be very useful if the author of the Web page would provide a hint through a <main> element where that main content is to be found.

    I think that the <main> element becomes particularly useful when combined with a default keyboard shortcut in browsers as proposed by Steve : we may actually find that non-accessibility users will also start making use of this shortcut, e.g. to get to videos on YouTube pages directly without having to tab over search boxes and other interactive elements, etc. Worthwhile markup indeed.