Hello, On 12/6/05, Charles Iliya Krempeaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello,
[...] > So, the orthogonal concepts here seem like: > * there's the concept of a "preview" image. (maybe thumbnail would > be a better name.) > * there's the concept of a "show" > * there's the concept of a "teaser" > * If it is a teaser there is a "Pay to View" link > * show can divided up into multiple contiguous files > * teaser can be made up of multiple files > * alternatives of the same media There's some stuff related to this on the wiki: http://microformats.org/wiki/alternates-examples http://microformats.org/wiki/alternates-brainstorming To me,, I get the impression that the favorite for speciying a set of alternate links to the "same" thing is something like: <ul class="alternates"> <li><a href="clip.mpeg">MPEG</a></li> <li><a href="clip.ogm">OGG</a></li> <li><a href="clip.avi">AVI</a></li> </ul> Now, from the point of view of reusing existing HTML elements that already have the proper semantics, I agree that at first that this does seem like a good idea. However, it seems to have some problems: #1: You can't have loosely coupled alternatives. #2: Without some pretty fancy CSS styling, this is really going to mess up people's webpages. (This will probably be a "show stopper" for some people.) For those 2 reasons, I'm more inclined to go with something like: <span class="alternates"> <a class="alternate" href="clip.mpeg">MPEG</a> <a class="alternate" href="clip.ogm">OGG</a> <a class="alternate" href="clip.avi">AVI</a> </span> That way you could do stuff like: <p> To help software handle RSS properly you should use RSS Disposition Hinting (<span class="alternates"><a href="http://advogato.org/article/852.html"; title="RSS Disposition Hinting Proposal">Advogato version</a>, <a href="http://changelog.ca/log/2005/08/21/rss-disposition-hinting-proposal"; title="RSS Disposition Hinting Proposal">ChangeLog.ca version</a></span>). </p> If you wanted to be lazy, you could even do the following: <p class="alternates"> To help software handle RSS properly you should use RSS Disposition Hinting (<a href="http://advogato.org/article/852.html"; title="RSS Disposition Hinting Proposal">Advogato version</a>, <a href="http://changelog.ca/log/2005/08/21/rss-disposition-hinting-proposal"; title="RSS Disposition Hinting Proposal">ChangeLog.ca version</a>). </p> (Don't know what people think of the class names I'm using. They may or may not be too generic.) > * you can combine all these > > Did I miss anything? [...] See ya -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. charles @ reptile.ca supercanadian @ gmail.com developer weblog: http://ChangeLog.ca/ ___________________________________________________________________________ Never forget where you came from _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
