wrote:
>> It is unnecessary. I have never met a blogger who have put up a
>> thumbnail
>> and then not used it as a link to the video. All you need is
>> rel="enclosure" - if that link points to a video resource then you can
>> safely assume that the first image contained in the link is the
>> thumbnail.
>>
>> e.g. <a href="" rel="enclosure"><img src=""
>> /></a>
>
> I only wish people were so consistent and reliable. Truth is that
> there is vast inconsistency in the wild.
>
> Many people use text links to point to videos, sometimes they use
> special "play button" icons to link to videos (not exactly a
> thumbnail). Sometimes people link to an HTML page with the media
> embedded and somtimes they just embed the media and do not use an
> image to link to it. In practice relEnclosure is rarely, if ever used.
Yeah, I know. In regards to thumbnails you can say 'if you want your
thumbnail on fireant you will have to use the image as a link to the
video'. Then people who wants thumbnails will have to make image links,
and you will hopefully get a slow adoption.
> We run into all sorts of problems like this trying to parse HTML
> descriptions when we aggregate feeds on FireAnt.tv.
If you guys ever want to share any research I'm sure it would be of huge
value to the microformats community.
> I don't think adding additional "semantic" HTML attributes would help
> much either. Often the bloggers who post with strange HTML conventions
> aren't the type of people who know much about HTML. I certainly
> wouldn't expect them to grok a Microformat like rel="media:thumbnail"
> ... but then perhaps broad acceptance is not really the goal of this
> proposal anyway.
+1
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