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/movieimg class=thumbnail
src=thumbnail.png
Hello Steve,
One other things...
The other important point to that is that the a element makes use of
the type attribute to show that it points to a video.
(Example MIME types in there that would signify a video are
video/mpeg, video/quicktime, etc. One problematic video MIME type
is that of
At 02:34 PM 8/16/2006, Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote:
It has been suggested that using class-thumbnail on the img element
would work for making thumbnails.
I was hoping that'd be the answer. Nice and simple.
Would it be considered bad form to recommend that to sites in
isolation, without
Hello Steve,
Microformats are basically just semantic HTML with specification.
So,... anyone can make their own semantic HTML. (Like picking an
using class names like these. No need for XMDP or anything else.)
Microformats try to standardize what's already out there. So that
everyone uses a
On Aug 16, 2006, at 4:46 PM, Steve Williams wrote:
At 02:34 PM 8/16/2006, Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote:
It has been suggested that using class-thumbnail on the img element
would work for making thumbnails.
I was hoping that'd be the answer. Nice and simple.
Would it be considered bad form
On 16 Aug 2006, at 22:46, Steve Williams wrote:
I don't want to do something that might influence a bunch of sites
if it would hurt the Microformats effort.
I wouldn't be too worried about that. The Microformats process
(http://microformats.org/wiki/process) says that µf are built
At 03:00 PM 8/16/2006, Scott Reynen wrote:
I don't see how class=thumbnail would work for you because the
thumbnail isn't going to exist on the submitted URL.
Well, the thumbnail MIGHT exist on the document at the submitted
URL. But you're right that the current practice is (I think) to
On 16 Aug 2006, at 23:23, Steve Williams wrote:
I'd think you'd need something more like link rel=thumbnail ...
I thought of that, and I like it a lot. Is that a common pattern
in new microformat proposals?
@rel gets a lot of use where appropriate. The only thing here is that
you must
