On 1/11/06, James Housley <email@hidden> wrote:
> A little, I know the itunes spec. But I am asking if there is
> anything special needed to create a RSS feed for "photocasting" like
> the new iWeb.
Snark aside, http://www.apple.com/ilife/iphoto/features/photocasting.html says
"A new feature in iPhoto 6, Photocasting allows .Mac members* to share
albums with anyone, anywhere. Say you have new photos of little
Jessica. Place the photos you'd like to share in an album called
"Jessica's Latest Pics."
"Then click the "Photocast this Album" button. iPhoto publishes the
album, and others can subscribe to it by clicking a link in an email
you send. "
"Oh, and if Aunt Sophia doesn't have iPhoto or she has a computer that
runs Windows, she can still subscribe to your Photocasts via any
RSS-compatible browser or RSS reader."
"Photocast publishing requires Mac OS X v.10.4.4 and .Mac..."
So the publishing-from-iPhoto half only works with .Mac, and I can't
find any details on what protocol it uses to publish the photos. But
it sounds like it creates a standard RSS feed that should work in any
RSS reader.
So, unanswered questions:
- What protocol does iPhoto use to publish the photos? Can it be made
to support non-.Mac servers? (I know there are already iPhoto plugins
for Flickr and such. Maybe that's the only answer.)
- What is the format of the generated "photocasting" RSS feed? Do the
<link> elements point directly to the photos? Or does it publish
escaped HTML of an <img> element in the <description> which iPhoto
scrapes? Or does it put the photos in <enclosure>s?
- Has Apple invented yet another RSS namespace that provides
additional photo information, or does the receiving copy of iPhoto get
all that from the image file after downloading?
- What is the format of the link that you can send to other people to
get them to subscribe to your photocasting feed? Has Apple invented
yet another URL scheme like "pcast://"?
- Can iPhoto be used to subscribe to non-.Mac RSS feeds? I wouldn't
mind subscribing to some Flickr feeds from iPhoto (my son loves
browsing through http://www.flickr.com/groups/all_gods_creatures/pool/
and naming the animals).
- Does iPhoto support subscribing to Atom 1.0 feeds?
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Cheers,
-Mark
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