[microformats-discuss] Video Pop-up Link Maker

[Lisa Rein]

I think this is a great place to start:

Joshua Kinberg wrote:
 > <div class="enclosure">
 >     <a href=[URL of video] title=[title of video] type=[mime-type]
 > rel="enclosure">
 >         <img src=[URL of thumbnail image] class="thumbnail" />
 >     </a>
 >     <abbr class="duration" title="00:27:35">27 minutes, 35 seconds</abbr>
 >     [hCard of XFN for roles of creators/authors]
 >     [hCalendar for date of creation]
 >     [relLicense for license info]
 >     [relTag for category/taxonomy info]
 >     [relPayment for payment info]
 >     <blockquote>[description of video]</blockquote>
 > </div>

Everything's optional, right? So why not have a larger model that can be
implemented. or not? :-)

thanks!

lisa


> Ryan King wrote:
>  > I think we're miscommunicating here.
>  >
>  > What you have above, Josh is some great analysis, a good conclusion.
>  >
>  > What we're missing is the evidence that led you to that conclusion.
>  >
>  > You know vlogging well, most of us don't- this is part of the reason
>  > why we advocate thorough documentation, because only then can non-
>  > domain-experts work with the format in an informed manner.
>  >
>  > David Janes (and others) are doing great work on http://
>  > microformats.org/wiki/blog-post-formats. We need similar work
>  > for media.
>
> Just to endorse this -- sitting down and spending the time actually
> systematically documenting and analyzing the cases "in the wild" -- is
> uncovering depths of information I had no idea were below the surface of
> the problem.
>
> Josh -- start simple with what people are doing in the videoblogging
> community. Exploit and encourage conformance to XHTML. Look at what
> people are actually doing is always the starting point.
>
> For example, you suggest ...
>
> Joshua Kinberg wrote:
>  > <div class="enclosure">
>  >     <a href=[URL of video] title=[title of video] type=[mime-type]
>  > rel="enclosure">
>  >         <img src=[URL of thumbnail image] class="thumbnail" />
>  >     </a>
>  >     <abbr class="duration" title="00:27:35">27 minutes, 35
> seconds</abbr>
>  >     [hCard of XFN for roles of creators/authors]
>  >     [hCalendar for date of creation]
>  >     [relLicense for license info]
>  >     [relTag for category/taxonomy info]
>  >     [relPayment for payment info]
>  >     <blockquote>[description of video]</blockquote>
>  > </div>
>
> ... if you sit down and look at what the videoblogging community is
> currently doing, you'll see that in 95%+ of the cases, many of these
> elements are already covered -- by the enclosing blog.
>
> I can't speak for non-videoblog/porn sites. Mark's supposed to report
> back to us once he's finished "researching"....
>
> Regards, etc...
> David
> http://www.blogmatrix.com
>
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