On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 16:20 -0400, Manu Sporny wrote: > Most of hAlbum's properties overlap with hAudio. In fact, the only two > properties that do not overlap with hAudio are 'album-title' and 'track'. >
Does hAudio then describe a collection of hAudio's ? > It has been proposed that we merge these two properties into hAudio to > provide a cleaner, more unified way of describing audio songs and > albums. Examples of how this would work along with the rest of the > arguments are located on the wiki: Great proposal Manu this will save a lot of confusion over hAlbum and hAudio, and save bloating the wiki with proposals that probably wont be used such as hAlbum. > > http://microformats.org/wiki/audio-info-issues#Problem:_hAlbum_is_redundant > > This approach has a number of benefits: > > - We'd be able to get rid of hAlbum (which I proposed, but never really > liked all that much). One less Microformat is good. Minimalism is > good. +1 for that > - It provides an elegant way to extend hAudio to albums, podcasts, > toplists and other audio collections. + for that too should we also add a type class <span class="type">Album</span> <span class="type">Podcast</span> <span class="type">Compilation</span> etc... > - It would address an issue that the Songbird folks had with hAudio > (not being to specify album-title in an hAudio). We need to also address and discuss descriptions for this to become complete. > - Parser implementation is simpler - less code to write to parse both > hAudio AND hAlbum. which is always a plus + > - It would effectively close the debate on using 'fn' or 'audio-title'. > Resolving two issues with one proposal. > > We'll be implementing this in the next several weeks on our website to > see how it works. If the implementation goes smoothly, I'd like to adopt > this method as the standard way of doing albums in hAudio. > > Thoughts and comments from everybody on this approach would be great at > this point. If you wanted to vote for/against it, the link is here: > > http://microformats.org/wiki/audio-info-issues#Votes_7 > > -- manu Thank you Martin > > _______________________________________________ > microformats-new mailing list > microformats-new@microformats.org > http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-new _______________________________________________ microformats-new mailing list microformats-new@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-new