[uf-new] First attempt at hAudio proposal

Martin McEvoy martin at weborganics.co.uk
Thu May 3 11:09:21 PDT 2007


On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 19:06 +0100, Martin McEvoy wrote:
> 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> 
sorry typo title="3:00" ahem...
> 
> 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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