alternates-brainstorming

Introduction

This page is to talk about alternates, that is, places where a user may be given several different items to choose amongst that at some logical level are considered equivalent.

Discussion Participants

Editor

• David Janes, BlogMatrix, Inc.

Authors

• David Janes, BlogMatrix, Inc.
• Lucas Gonze
• Greg Borenstein

Brainstorms

Strawman 1

<fieldset>
 <a href="example.mp3" type="audio/mpeg">MP3 alternative</a>
 <a href="example.wav" type="audio/wav">WAV alternative</a>
 <a href="example.mov" type="video/quicktime">MOV alternative</a>
</fieldset> 

XHTML Sample

Strawman 2

   <select id="entryN">
     <option value="example.mp3">MP3 alternative</option>
     <option value="example.mov">WAV alternative</option>
     <option value="example.wav">MOV alternative</option>
   </select> 

XHTML Sample

Strawman 3

<div class="altgroup">
 <a class="alternate" href="example.mp3" type="audio/mpeg">MP3 alternative</a>
 <a class="alternate" href="example.wav" type="audio/wav">WAV alternative</a>
 <a class="alternate" href="example.mov" type="video/quicktime">MOV alternative</a>
</div> 

Strawman 4

<ul class="altgroup">
 <li><a class="alternate" href="example.mp3" type="audio/mpeg">MP3 alternative</a></li>
 <li><a class="alternate" href="example.wav" type="audio/wav">WAV alternative</a></li>
 <li><a class="alternate" href="example.mov" type="video/quicktime">MOV alternative</a></li>
</ul> 

An ordered list could use its list elements to imply an order of precedence where an unordered list would imply a series of peered alternates (as shown here).

See Also

• alternates-examples
• alternates-brainstorming
• media-metadata-examples -- Yahoo's Media RSS uses this