[uf-new] hAudio ISSUE #1: image-summary is redundant

[Martin McEvoy]

On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 09:50 +0000, Brian Suda wrote:
> On 8/6/07, Martin McEvoy <martin at weborganics.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 22:39 -0400, Manu Sporny wrote:
> > > The full issue description can be found on the audio-info-issues page:
> > >
> > > http://microformats.org/wiki/audio-info-issues#image-summary_Property
> > >
> > > hAudio ISSUE #1:
> > >
> > > image-summary - This is a small graphic image that summarizes the audio
> > > piece. There are several other formats that already use the PHOTO
> > > property, including hCard and hReview. This has potential to collapse
> > > and remove image-summary.
> > >
> > > Possible Solutions
> > >
> > >    1. Use PHOTO instead.
> > >
> > > I think we should go with Brian's suggestion and use PHOTO instead of
> > > image-summary. If you are involved in hAudio (or want to be), please
> > > give the list an "AGREE/+1" or disagree with a line of reasoning.
> > >
> > > -- manu
> >
> > Disagree
> >
> > Photo or Logo is not a correct description of what may be potentially a
> > work of art eg,
> 
> --- i think this is splitting hairs, at the end of the day, this is a
> representation of the actual Art, Photo, Painting, etc. Applications
> are called "PhotoShop". "iPhoto", etc. even though they are not always
> indexing or editing JUST photos. Re-using PHOTO keeps us from
> inventing more and more terms.
> 
> Also, the current spec says that this MUST use an <img>, i would say
> this should be changed to SHOULD, not MUST. There could be cases were
> you might want to simply give the URL to the image or use an AREA or
> OBJECT element. Or possibly use other elements in RSS. We should avoid
> mandating how/where to encoding specific microformat properties.

Do you think the use of PHOTO may interfere with the hCard that is
already part of the hAudio proposal, Suppose I wanted to mark up my
hAudio hcard's with Photos of the band members? isn't that breaking the
don't repeat yourself rule?

Thanks
Martin
> 
> -brian
> 
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