TIL how to deeplink all the things

I have written before about how to link to a specific segment of a youtube video, and how to link to specific words or paragraphs within a webpage. I even knew, vaguely, that you could link to pages of PDFs. But, all in the course of a normal workday researching a blogpost, I found myself wanting reference a specific ~30 second chunk of a Marx Brothers movie from 1935, and the last page of a PDF about a piece of public art. The PDF was easy, using the #page=n syntax. As for the scene from the movie: nobody had clipped that specific part out and put it on YouTube – in fact, I didn’t even find the scene I was looking for – but I did find an mp4 on the Internet Archive with a scene that fit my requirements. It turns out, you can link to a specific segment of an Mp4, too! This is thanks to the Media Fragments URI 1.0 (basic) W3C spec recommendation from 2012. According to CanIUse, media fragments are supported by all major browsers (97-99% of users). The syntax is nice:…