Angus McIntyre wrote:
On Thu, December 13, 2007 12:44 pm, Robert O'Rourke wrote:
Perhaps in the case of a podcast or video blog you could tell your
feed-reader what format you prefer and it would grab the right file.
That's one possibility but I don't know of anyone who does
podcasts/video blogs in multiple formats.
We do, 'we' being my $DAYJOB at http://blip.tv/.
I've actually been following this thread with interest because our pages
currently contain a list of the alternate formats available for any given
post. Some of our show creators make their episodes available in five or
six different formats. Take a look, for example, at:
http://blip.tv/file/509978/
In the bottom-right of that page you'll see a list of the different
formats available for download. Unless I'm misreading what 'alternates' is
supposed to be, that's a real-world example where it could be applied and
- because we're microformats enthusiasts - certainly would be.
Angus
Nice, do you think you could convince your boss (assuming you're not) to
conduct a survey of your users to see what feed-readers they typically
use? My money would be on iTunes but I don't know whether a preferred
format would be necessary there. What file types can an iPod handle? And
does iTunes already give people the option to set a preference?
I wonder if this is a case where <link rel="alternate" type="xxx"
href="" /> should be used in the feed, rather than a microformat on the
page. If there was no feed and sticking with the example of iTunes we'd
have to convince them to let people point it at a web page to parse out
the files and the preferred format from the alternates uF...
Alternates would also be a good extension for hAtom also.
-Rob
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