[uf-new] First attempt at hAudio proposal

[Martin McEvoy]

On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 08:39 -0700, Ben Wiley Sittler wrote:
> allow 8601 duration notation (see e.g.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Duration ) but treat an unmarked
> number as seconds and you'll have power and flexibility while also
> using standards. because of its unambiguous form, you could even
> support seconds only for now, and add 8601 duration support later, but
> that runs the risk of horribly confusing the first generation of
> implementations with the second generation of data (as has happened
> with some other specs that have made this change.)
> 
> notations for 3 hours ten seconds and three hundredths of a second:
> 
> PT3H10.03S
>  ^- duration notation
> PT03:00:10.03
>  ^- combined notation
> 10810.03
>  ^- pure seconds (not 8601 but too simple not to allow)
> 
> -ben

so this would be better to specify length 

<abbr class="duration" title="3.30">3m 30s</abbr> 

maybe this needs to be added to 

http://microformats.org/wiki/measure-brainstorming

> 
> On 5/3/07, Manu Sporny <msporny at digitalbazaar.com> wrote:
> > Andy Mabbett wrote:
> > > In message <32FB44E8-37B8-4A19-92F1-083D5EE6122F at makedatamakesense.com>,
> > > Scott Reynen <scott at makedatamakesense.com> writes
> > >
> > >> length -> new class="length", or defer in first draft
> > >
> > > Should be a measure format
> >
> > I agree... but we don't have a measure format yet and nobody seems to be
> > pushing that initiative forward. Most of the audio-info-examples never
> > specify units (seconds are assumed).
> >
> > >> price -> new class="price", or defer in first draft
> > >
> > > Should be a currency format
> >
> > It is in the current proposal:
> >
> > http://microformats.org/wiki/audio-info-proposal#Price
> >
> > -- manu
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