Hello, On 2/15/06, anthony l. bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Charles, > > Great to hear from you. I think you've hit upon a big idea in the > application of a hash microformat. I know about enclosures, but doubt I > would have made the connection. I'm sure there are other applications too. > > Checksums are not very exciting to people, but I think whats holding them > back is that they are not automated. I mean, why not take advantage of them? > > Do you mind if I add your name & this to the wiki?
Sure, go ahead. See ya > Anthony > > > > In fact, I do think it is worth pursuing. And can be useful in alot of > other situations (beyond just this one). > > For example, with RSS and Atom feeds, we have something called an > "enclosure". With an "enclosure" you are being told that this file (that > the enclosure points to) is "attached" to this item. (And that you might > want to go and download it.) > > Now, having checksum information (like a MD5 checksum) could be very useful > for this. Especially in the context of hAtom -- the Microformat variation > of Atom. And the rel-enclosure Microformat. > > So, if we combined the two -- combined this semantic HTML for "downloading" > and rel-enclosure -- then we might get something like this: > > <span class="download"> > <a rel="bookmark enclosure" href="..."> Download OOo</a> > <span class="checksum > md5">e0d123e5f316bef78bfdf5a008837577</span> > > </span> > And this becomes even more powerfull. > > Note that I've added "enclosure" to the "rel" attribute of the <a> element. > This could be used in other Microformats and semantic HTML too. > > > See ya > > -- > Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. > > charles @ reptile.ca > supercanadian @ gmail.com > > developer weblog: http://ChangeLog.ca/ > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Make Television > http://maketelevision.com/ -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. charles @ reptile.ca supercanadian @ gmail.com developer weblog: http://ChangeLog.ca/ ___________________________________________________________________________ Make Television http://maketelevision.com/ _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
