Andreas, just following up on this. I re-read all your comments in the thread and I think this just about sums it up. Let me know if I'm wrong.
I must say, btw, while I think you're right about multiple video thumbnails in a blog post and that some blog platforms like drupal, wordpress, or blip may need such a standard that if I were to follow the google's 3% rule... that this is only ever going to come into play in extremely rare instances. Probably a thousnandth of a percentage of vlog posts over the coming years. That said the world of standards is governed by different factors then the world of interface design. While from an interface standpoint I would remove such long tail features to reduce complexity and clutter in design I do acknowlege that we do need to include them in such standards. In summary, while we shoudl include this complexity, the intention is to be able to explain this standard to people as simply as rel=tag. For example, this is all most people need to know... Thumbnails not showing up for your videos? -- To add thumbnails to your video blog posts that will be recognized by videoblog aggregators and search engines like Mefeedia.com please add class="thumbnail" to thumbnails corresponding to the video in your blog posts. ie. <img src="thumbnail.gif" class="thumbnail"> Enough said? -Mike mefeedia.com mmeiser.com/blog On 2/19/07, Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Den 19.02.2007 kl. 13:00 skrev Mike Meiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Having some sort of "wrapper" around it is optional. > > Optional for the author, but it must be required of the parser that it > understands the wrapper. Otherwise it will not be able to match thumbnails > to video files (or blog posts) on pages that contains more than one video. > It goes in the 'strongly encouraged, but optional' category. > > > I'll have to read up on hAtom, I can understand how hVlog would make > > it easier to parse, but quite frankly I think it would so confuse the > > average vlogger they'd be apt to either improperly mark up their blog > > posts, or simply forget about it all together. > > > > I guess the question is should we even mention it at all in this > > thumbnail spec? > > Specs are for programmers, not for regular people. It should most > definitely be listed as a reference. To get the average vlogger to > understand what they have to do you will have to write a how-to article. > > -- > Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen > <URL: http://www.solitude.dk/ > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
