2006/4/26, David M Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Apr 24, 2006, at 1:16 PM, James M Snell wrote: > > http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/PaceMediaEntries > > > > The WG seems to be in agreement that the current definition of Media > > Collections is horribly broken. > > Actually, the draft 8 definition works for me. The blog server I'm > working on, Roller, every blog has a collection of entries and a > collection of uploaded files. And currently, Roller does not store > any metadata for uploaded files.
What are you returning in the "media collection feed" in atom:title, atom:id, atom:updated, atom:author? atom:title and atom:updated can quite easily be built from the file name and "mtime", if you store them as files on a file system of course; but for atom:id and atom:author? > > The key advantage of this approach is that it works seamlessly with > > existing *casting style applications. It also resolves all of the > > issues that have been raised in relation to media collections. > > The draft 8 approach supported podcasting too. So using atom:content is "supporting podcasting"? That's good news. > So, for those that are OK with media collections as they stand today, > what are the advantages of your proposal? Seems to me the advantages > are: a more consistent and easy-to-understand model and the ability > to edit metadata for media files. I'm +1 to both of those. As I already said, I'm not sure using an enclosure and an additional atom:link/@rel is "a more consistent and easy-to-understand model". I haven't had time yet to write an alternate Pace, I'll try to do it tomorrow, or at least before this week end… > Question: without media-types, how do clients discover which types > the different collections allow? James told me this could very well be supported by an extension (note that there would then be a primary collection for each collection type – defined by the extension –, and a "primary primary" collection – defined by the APP –; it works for me, just thought it should be said ;-) ) -- Thomas Broyer
