[uf-new] PROPOSAL: Replace hAudio FN with TITLE

[Ben Ward]

OK, this is getting a bit wild. Can everyone please take a little  
stock. I shall try to lay out what I see are the ‘facts’ of this  
situation, which are being debated at length, but can't actually be  
altered.

So:

• ‘title’ is specified as something else.
• ‘fn’ is perceived as too generic and counter intuitive in the  
context of audio

My elaboration on those ‘facts’:

'Title' came from vcard, and trying to bodge its semantics into  
hAudio is just going to create a mess. Even if there's a tenuous way  
to make the definition fit both, it's just a bad idea to generalise  
two things which are very clearly not the same. ‘title’ a desirable,  
valuable field name, but it's gone. In our µf world, it's got a  
definition (which is not the most common English usage, it's true)  
and if it doesn't map to a usage in another proposed format then  
we'll have to use something else.

Regarding FN, I happen to agree. It's very generic and works in place  
of something-called-title, but the name is unintuitive. I don't think  
that helps publishers.

On the basis of those two things, there is very little to debate.  
TITLE is out of bounds because it doesn't mean what you want it to  
mean in the context of microformats. If ‘FN’ is agreed to be  
undesirable, then the only debate should be regarding what the  
alternative field name should be.

For my 2¢, I think the ‘audio-title’ route is OK, and has no  
‘namespacing’ consequences at all. The ‘audio-’ prefix is precision  
and clarification. It's not a grouping. ‘audio-title’ makes perfect  
sense in natural language, and it's a field that it's necessary to be  
more precise on. If there's some phrase that could be more  
transferrable (something synonymous with ‘media-title’) maybe that  
should be considered too. End of the day, though, ‘TITLE’ is gone,  
and if you don't like ‘FN’ then you need to find an alternative.

Perhaps the current debate would be more productive if it focused on  
solving that problem, rather than thrashing around the cement base of  
the issue.

Cheers,

Ben