Hello Steve, This (and other things relating to it) have been discussed, but nothing has been agreed on yet.
It has been suggested that using class-thumbnail on the <img> element would work for making thumbnails. As in... <a type="video/mpeg" href="/the/movie"><img class="thumbnail" src="thumbnail.png" /></a> See ya On 8/16/06, Steve Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm new to microformats. I read Mary Hodder's excellent wiki page describing the current landscape, but I didn't find a specific microformat for media metadata. Is there a concrete recommendation for microformats to express media metadata? If not, would one of you more experienced microformatters have time to help me whip up a proposal? Our specific need: We added YouTube and Google video thumbnails to digg.com yesterday. http://diggtheblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/video-thumbnails.html We used YouTube's public API and an unpublished Google mechanism to fetch their thumbnails. YouTube's API is great, but it's a bit heavyweight for just fetching thumbnails. Fortunately, there's an opportunity to influence other sites to adopt a microformat for the thumbnail and perhaps other metadata. Digg invited other video hosting services to contact us about getting their thumbnails on digg, and a bunch of them have contacted us already. They're asking us what they need to do, and I'd like to respond, "Just mark up the video's permalink page with this here microformat, and we'll use that to grab the thumbnail." But I don't know enough to tell them exactly how to do it. Thanks!
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