James Holderness wrote:
James M Snell wrote:
Ok, now that a number of the other extensions I've been working on
are moving along, it's time to turn my attention to a couple of other
ideas I've been stewing on. One of which is link[rel="sponsored"] to
indicate sponsored links / advertisements within feeds.
Not sure about this. Why would an aggregator display such a link? At
best you might get an option in the aggregator asking whether the user
wanted to see sponsored links, but then you have to ask yourself how
many users would enable such an option. As a content provider I would
be inclined to just slap them at the bottom of the message somewhere
with a little header saying "sponsored links". Not pretty, but at
least you can be sure the links will be seen.
I know, this basically comes down to a trust issue... that is, do you
trust that aggregators and users will respect 'em. I'm not convinced
either, but I wanted to at least float the idea.
Lastly, a while back Eric Scheid and I discussed a bit about how
alternate locations for a link could be expressed (e.g. mirrors). He
was going to write up a draft, but I'm not sure about the status of
that effort. Here's what I'm thinking:
<link rel=enclosure" href"..." ...>
<x:alternate href="..." title="..." />
<x:alternate href="..." title="..." />
</link>
I like this a lot. You get fallback support when a link goes down as
well as the ability to download from multiple sources simultaneously
for extra speed. For this to work, though, it's vital that these
resources are bit-for-bit identical. If not I think they MUST include
an x:md5 attribute so an aggregator can tell which are safe to
interleave.
Good points.
- James
