On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, will surgent wrote: > > It would be nice if there was a copyright attribute for the HTML 5 img > tag. This would make it easy for users and search engines to filter out > images that can not be used for certain purposes.
On Sun, 10 Jan 2010, Jonny Barnes wrote: > > Or maybe a license attribute instead, that would include copyrighted > work and stuff licensed under some CC or alternative. On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > > This is one of the things microdata/RDFa are meant to do. On Sun, 10 Jan 2010, Philip Jägenstedt wrote: > > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/microdata.html#examples-4 On Sun, 10 Jan 2010, will surgent wrote: > > Hmm I didn't know about that. Thanks! On Sun, 10 Jan 2010, Dawid Czyzewski wrote: > > And why img only? this would also be good for audio and video. On Mon, 11 Jan 2010, will surgent wrote: > > That sounds like good idea (about the audio and video elements being > included as-well). I just thought of it because Google does not allow one to > specify the copyright or license in an image search as far as I know. having > a license attribute would make it intuitive for developers to add the > license the same way title and alt attributes are specified. On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, timeless wrote: > > external metadata on copyright is a disaster. it gets lost immediately. > > GIF and friends have supported embedding (c) into images for decades. > > As google is fully capable of caching images (and obviously does so), I > question how adding a tag to html will solve a problem which is already > solved by the native image formats themselves. > > For lack of a more useful reference about comment fields, i'll just > point to one application which is aware of them (although at the time of > the posting it only supported them for certain image types): > http://www.group42.com/ts-wi04.htm Based on the above comments, I haven't changed anything -- the work vocabulary pretty much already addresses this use case in HTML, and addressing it in other formats is a problem for another working group. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
