On 1/30/06 2:14 PM, "Robert Sayre" <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 1/30/06, Ernest Prabhakar <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> I think people missed my question. My understanding was always that
>> Media RSS "supplemented" the enclosure tag, which I interpreted to
>> mean that it was a superset of standard RSS 2.0 podcasting behavior:
>>
>
> Well, I guess you could say it supplements the enclosure tag the same
> way the itunes:description tag supplements the description tag. ;)
>
> Yahoo did find that many content providers wanted more control/info
> about the presentation (like playerUrl and such).
Robert, when you say "many content providers wanted", do you by any chance
have some (or know of) specific research of current content providers on the
Web that demonstrates this?
I'm not doubting your assertion, I'm just looking for data on it to do some
analysis.
> I think HTML is
> great for that sort of thing, but oh well...
Right. Content providers are used to publishing their content (media) in
HTML, and to that extent, a lot of common patterns/behaviors can be
discerned.
I hope the list pardons the following semi-off-topic thoughts, because I do
believe they are quite relevant to this thread in particular.
One thing that the microformats community is attempting to do (as I'm sure
Robert and many folks on this list have already heard about and contributed
to) is to *document* that existing publishing behavior, in the hopes that it
can form the basis of a light-weight 80/20 "media-info" microformat.
http://microformats.org/wiki/media-info-examples
As far as the use of a "playerUrl" in particular, the folks doing the
media-info-examples research to date (myself included) must have missed the
substantial examples of playerUrl usage in the wild. If you could point us
to some sources and any broader such research in general, it would be great.
If folks feel this is inappropriate for this list, feel free to redirect
this particular subthread to the microformats-discuss list:
http://microformats.org/discuss
Thanks,
Tantek
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