Aloha folks, There hasn't been much lately regarding the 'alternates' discussion[1]. It seems that in the HTML spec[2], 'alternate' is meant as something the user can choose between, i.e., style sheets[3], and/or something the browser can try and render in a given rank order, i.e., objects[4]. The suggested use of <ol> for preference and <ul> for no preference is clever[1].
(this example modified from the wiki entry[1]) <ol class="alternates"> <li><a href="example.mp3" rel="enclosure alternate" type="audio/mpeg">MP3</a></li> <li><a href="example.wav" rel="enclosure alternate" type="audio/wav">WAV</a></li> <li><a href="example.mov" rel="enclosure alternate" type="video/quicktime">MOV</a></li> </ol> Another option may be to try and and bring up alternates to the level of each being an hentry of an overall hfeed[5]. While that might provide greater facility to allow for various metadata around a given alternate (e.g., video vs. audio vs. format size, or even abbreviated vs. longer versions of content), the simple uses cases may become a bit stretched. Any thoughts? [1] http://microformats.org/wiki/alternates-brainstorming [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/index/list.html [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/present/styles.html#didx-style_sheet [4] http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/objects.html#edef-OBJECT [5] http://microformats.org/wiki/hatom -- Sincerely, Jeff McNeill http://jeffmcneill.com/ _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss