James M Snell wrote:
Ok, now that a number of the other extensions I've been working on are
moving along, it's time to turn my attention to a couple of other ideas
I've been stewing on. One of which is link[rel="sponsored"] to indicate
sponsored links / advertisements within feeds.
Not sure about this. Why would an aggregator display such a link? At best
you might get an option in the aggregator asking whether the user wanted to
see sponsored links, but then you have to ask yourself how many users would
enable such an option. As a content provider I would be inclined to just
slap them at the bottom of the message somewhere with a little header saying
"sponsored links". Not pretty, but at least you can be sure the links will
be seen.
Lastly, a while back Eric Scheid and I discussed a bit about how alternate
locations for a link could be expressed (e.g. mirrors). He was going to
write up a draft, but I'm not sure about the status of that effort. Here's
what I'm thinking:
<link rel=enclosure" href"..." ...>
<x:alternate href="..." title="..." />
<x:alternate href="..." title="..." />
</link>
I like this a lot. You get fallback support when a link goes down as well as
the ability to download from multiple sources simultaneously for extra
speed. For this to work, though, it's vital that these resources are
bit-for-bit identical. If not I think they MUST include an x:md5 attribute
so an aggregator can tell which are safe to interleave.
Regards
James
