Hello, This is an RFC -- Request for Comments. So I'm looking for people's opinions, comments, and criticisms on all this.
Note... this is NOT a Microformat. Nor an attempt to define a new Microformat. This is about semantic HTML (sHTML) markup. (Hopefully this isn't too off-topic for this mailing list. I'm just looking to tap this group for comments on this.) BACKGROUND I'm developing some software for a client that will (among other things) display video thumbnails within HTML. I've actually used this form of semantic HTML before. However, until this, none of it was publicly released. (Also, with this software, once it is out there, I won't be in control of the software... and thus not able to make corrections to the markup later.) SEMANTIC HTML The way I'm planning on marking these up is using a combination of 2 built in HTML elements. The <q> element and the <img> element. Conceptually, I'm considering a video thumbnail to be analogous to quoted text. In other words, I'm conceptually considering video thumbnails to be a "quote" of a video. So, for example, we would have something like... <q cite="http://example.com/video";><img src="http://example.com/thumbnail.jpg"; /></q> Or if you want that pretty-printed... <q cite="http://example.com/thevideo";> <img src="http://example.com/thumbnail.jpg"; /> </q> CITING VIDEO In this, I make use of the <q> element's "cite" attribute to refer to the "video" where the thumbnail is taken from. This "cite" attribute might refer to a binary video file. But could also refer to a "blog post" or "vlog post" in which the video is embedded. For the purposes of this, I'm considering some (but not all) HTML pages to be "video". So.. for example, an HTML "vlog post" is considered to be "video". TYPES OF THUMBNAILS Really there are different sources a thumbnail can come from. A thumbnail can come from a video. But it could also come from a (static) image. So... to distinguish between these different types of thumbnails, I've added a class-video to the <q> element. (I suppose if you have a thumbnail from a static image you could add class-image... but anyways....) So, our example from before becomes... <q class="video" cite="http://example.com/video";><img src="http://example.com/thumbnail.jpg"; /></q> Or if you want that pretty-printed... <q class="video" cite="http://example.com/thevideo";> <img src="http://example.com/thumbnail.jpg"; /> </q> RFC Comments? Critisizms? Opinions? -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. charles @ reptile.ca supercanadian @ gmail.com developer weblog: http://ChangeLog.ca/ _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
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