[An image or flash player goes here]
<a href=""> <a href="" rel=enclosure>QuickTime</A>
In the above where links to the movie files are below the image ...
the image would not be within the rel=enclosure. Arent we seeing alot
of this now (pretty sure I am)
On 5/30/06, David Meade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Yes but I'm talking about feed here not a post.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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>
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> > - Andreas
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> > On Tue, 30 May 2006 23:31:24 +0200, David Meade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> > > 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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