[uf-discuss] marking up a rel-enclosure length

[Martin McEvoy]

On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 17:41 -0400, Sylvain Carle wrote:
> Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote:
> > Hello Martin,
> > 
> > On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Martin McEvoy <info at weborganics.co.uk> wrote:
> >> Hello all,
> >>
> >> I have been wandering is there any way to mark up the file "length" or
> >> size of a  rel="enclosure"[1], If not, Is there a best practice? or has
> >> anyone any thoughts on how to do this?
> >>
> >> [1] http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-enclosure
> > 
> > Couldn't you just do an HTTP "HEAD" request on the URL (for the
> > rel-enclosure) to get the size of the file (if you really wanted to
> > know)?
> 
> Maybe, but what if you wanted to "declare" it in your markup?

I do :)

> 
> I know the format is a bit ugly, but MediaRSS [1] has interesting prior 
> art for that, with filesize, bitrate (etc) attributes that could be used 
> on an xhtml element (instead of the xml representation done in MediaRSS).
> 
> 1. http://search.yahoo.com/mrss

Yes I looked into Media RSS some time ago, relevant to the discussion on
file format's or hFileFormat [1]

[1] http://microformats.org/wiki/file-format-examples

what I am thinking is maybe something much more simple like 

<span class="size" title="3792105">3.6M</span>

Hmm.. looks like this discussion needs to be re-raised on Microformats
New.

Thanks anyway.

Martin

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