Metalink Team, Greetings. I am working on a proposal to the HTML5 working group. The proposal intends to include examples of how HTML5 can extend to include the expressiveness of metalink.
The following example indicates several premises simultaneously: <html xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";> <a dc:title="Example" dc:language="en" dc:description="Text description.">Example <link rel="alternate" type="multipart/mixed" ?:hash="md5:e4d909c290d0fb1ca068ffaddf22cbd0" href="torrent+http://www.example.com/example1.ext.torrent";> <link rel="part" type="video/avi" ?:hash="..."/> <link rel="part" type="image/png" ?:hash="..."/> </link> <link rel="alternate" type="multipart/mixed" ?:hash="..." href="torrent+http://www.example.com/example2.ext.torrent";> <link rel="part" type="video/mpeg" ?:hash="..."/> <link rel="part" type="image/png" ?:hash="..."/> </link> <link rel="alternate" type="multipart/mixed" ?:hash="..." href="torrent+http://www.example.com/example3.ext.torrent";> <link rel="part" type="video/ogg" ?:hash="..."/> <link rel="part" type="image/png" ?:hash="..."/> </link> </a> </html> Firstly, the use of the "multipart/mixed" MIME type. Secondly, the <link rel="alternate" .../>, which intends to indicate a set of alternative resource locations in a manner similar to metalink. Thirdly, the <link rel="part" .../>, which intends to indicate the substructure of a "multipart/mixed" MIME type. Fourthly, the indicated "torrent+http://"; protocol syntax. Fifthly, the use of attributes to indicate at least file hashes. Sixthly, a possible syntax for hash attribute value strings. If a protocol, capable of multiple files, such as torrent, references one file, then the following syntax is indicated: <a type="video/ogg" href="torrent+http://example.com/example3.ext.torrent";>Example</a> Where the torrent file is, in the example, containing one video file. If a protocol, capable of multiple files, such as torrent, references multiple files, then the "multipart/mixed" MIME type is indicated and the <link rel="part" .../> can be in the substructure of an anchor tag: <a type="multipart/mixed" href="torrent+http://example.com/www.example.ext.torrent";>Example <link rel="part" type="video/ogg"/> <link rel="part" type="image/png"/> </a> I wanted to broach these ideas with you and to invite a discussion towards arriving at the best possible proposal for the HTML5 team. Kind regards, Adam Sobieski -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Metalink Discussion" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/metalink-discussion?hl=en.
