Imagine a blog a post lists 3 or 4 different formats. If the enclosure in the feed is QuickTime, but the default link on the post points to WMV or Flash ... a link to the Quicktime file might not have an image within the href tag.
There are all sorts of times when an enclosure in a feed cant definatively be tied to a particular image file in the body. the rel=enclosure is not always the default link in the body.
On 5/30/06, Andreas Haugstrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It is unnecessary. I have never met a blogger who have put up a thumbnail
and then not used it as a link to the video. All you need is
rel="enclosure" - if that link points to a video resource then you can
safely assume that the first image contained in the link is the thumbnail.
e.g. <a href="" rel="enclosure"><img src="" /></a>
- Andreas
On Tue, 30 May 2006 23:31:24 +0200, David Meade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> an idea just hit me out of the blue ... it may be stupid, or it may be
> already done, but I figured this group could let me know on either ...
>
> You know how we have rel=enclosure for links in a post that should be
> enclosed in a feed ...
> how about a new micro-format for rel=media:thumbnail
>
> rel=media:thumbnail could be added to an image in a post so that this
> image could be included as the still image for the MRSS extension.
>
> services like blip which cross post to your blog could include the
> rel=media:thumbnail automatically and feedburner could then insert that
> image into your MRSS info (feedburner already inserts some MRSS in
> there).
>
> I've got a few cool ideas in the back of my head on ways to consume a
> feed,
> but a few of them would work far better if I KNEW what image the blogger
> wanted to use to represent thier video/audio file. This sort of solution
> would allow for a much broader adoption of the media:thumbnail element in
> RSS.
>
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