Hello Maciej, On 5/27/07, Maciej Stachowiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On May 27, 2007, at 11:10 AM, Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote: > > 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? I don't think this is a very natural use of the <q> element. A thumbnail isn't really like a quote of a prose fragment. Consider that you would never put a thumbnail in quotation marks.
True... but you don't have to have the <q> elements put quotes around the thumbnail. Please refer to the following to see how to get rid of it... http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-May/009703.html This is similar to the problem we have with using <abbr> for dates. Some browsers put a border under the <abbr> element. We get rid of the bottom border some browser put under the <abbr> element (when we use it for dates) with a little extra inline style. We can do something similar here for the <q> element used for video thumbnails.
Also, <q cite=""> does not generally result in a clickable hyperlink,
It's not suppose to be clickable (in general). In this bit of sHTML, I'm only tackling the problem of video thumbnailing. It is true that I often do make it clickable by having code like the following... <a href="http://example.com/thevideo";> <q class="video" cite="http://example.com/thevideo";> <img src="http://example.com/thumbnail.jpg"; alt="..." /> </q> </a> But this is NOT always the case. Sometimes I don't want the thumbnail to be clickable.
and <q> adds rendered quotes in some browsers but not others. If you want the full video to be clickable, what you might want is: <a rev="thumbnail" href="http://example.com/video";> <img src="http://example.com/thumbnail.jpg";> </a>
I'm not sure if the "rev" attribute is being used correctly in your markup.
Or, since rev is confusing and semi-deprecated, you could use rel="full-video" or something like that; there's no very good opposite to "thumbnail" unfortunately. Regards, Maciej
See ya -- 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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