Without having read the spec in detail, the first thing I wonder is why not use 
RSS for this purpose? That seems to be the de facto standard for audio feeds 
(i.e. podcasts). This is dismissed in a cursory way in the explainer. There’s 
some more detailed discussion in the issue filed by the TAG: 
<https://github.com/beccahughes/media-feeds/issues/10>, which I found 
eventually. It seems like some of that should go in the Explainer.

Second, it’s not clear to me if this spec has anything that would need to be 
implemented in the browser engine. Rather, it provides a format for metadata 
linked from the page, which can optionally be used by the UA in some manner 
unrelated to processing of web content. Is that correct? (Asking in part to 
know the right people to ask for an opinion.)

Third, and this is a minor thing, it seems strange that the spec (and parts of 
its syntax) are called Media Feeds instead of Video Feeds, since audio is 
explicitly out of scope. Perhaps audio is intended to be added later. If so, 
that increases the value of aligning with how podcasts are done today.


> On Jun 17, 2020, at 2:48 PM, Becca Hughes <beccahug...@chromium.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi webkit-dev,
> 
> I would like to request an official position on Media Feeds.
> 
> Explainer: https://github.com/WICG/media-feeds/blob/master/explainer.md 
> <https://github.com/WICG/media-feeds/blob/master/explainer.md>
> Chrome Status: https://chromestatus.com/feature/5695114963845120 
> <https://chromestatus.com/feature/5695114963845120>
> TAG review: https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/477 
> <https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/477>
> 
> Thanks,
> Becca
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