- From: Charles Iliya Krempeaux <supercanadian@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 00:04:20 -0800
Hello, On 11/14/06, Charles Iliya Krempeaux <supercanadian at gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > On 11/14/06, Charles Iliya Krempeaux <supercanadian at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > On 11/1/06, Charles Iliya Krempeaux < supercanadian at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Hello Christoph, > > > > > > On 11/1/06, Christoph P?per < christoph.paeper at crissov.de> wrote: > > > > > > > > *Henri Sivonen*, 2006-10-29: > > > > > > > > >> http://blog.fawny.org/2006/10/28/tbl-html/ > > > > > > > > > >> * HTML has samp, var, and kbd. I use all of them and I am > > > > >> pretty much the only one who does. > > > > > > > > > > FWIW, I think <samp> and <kbd> don't deserve to be in HTML and I > > > > am > > > > > not convinced that the use cases for <var> could not be satisfied > > > > > by <i>. > > > > > > > > I consider > > > > > > > > <a href="foo.xga"><samp><img src="foo.qvga" alt="Foo"></ samp > > > > ></a> > > > > > > > > Thinking about it some more, something like the <q> element may be > > useful as well for marking thumbnails. > > > > So, you might have something like this... > > > > <a type="video/mpeg" href="http://example.com/video/123"> > > <q cite=" http://example.com/video/123 "> > > <img src="http://example.com/thumbnail/123" /> > > </q> > > </a> > > > > (Although you'd probably want to add a "quotes:none;" to that <q> > > element, since some browsers wrap a <q> with quotes.) > > > > One would know that the <img> is from the video because the URL in > > "cite" attribute (for the <q> element) matches the URL in the "href" > > attribute (of the <a> element.) > > > > > Doing it this way (with the <q> element instead of the <samp> element) > would also allow you to take the thumbnail outside of the link. So, for > example... > > <q cite=" http://example.com/video/123 "> > <img src="http://example.com/thumbnail/123" /> > </q> > <a type="video/mpeg" href=" http://example.com/video/123">[download]</a> > > The "cite" attribute (of the <q> element) and the "href" attribute (for > the <a> element) could still be matched up to find thumbnail, in this > configuration too. (Sorry for replying to my own e-mail message again....) If we still had the "urn" attribute on the <a> element, we could use it to specify alternatives of the same video. So, for example... <q cite="http://example.com/video/123/mpeg"> <img src="http://example.com/thumbnail/123" /> </q> <a urn="urn:uuid:0a8d2f83-d5d2-44e7-bde9-319aaadc219c" type="video/mpeg" href="http://example.com/video/123/mpeg">[MPEG]</a> <a urn="urn:uuid:0a8d2f83-d5d2-44e7-bde9-319aaadc219c" type="video/quicktime" href="http://example.com/video/123/mov ">[QuickTime]</a> Just to say it explicitly, the "cite" attribute matches only one of those links. (It could be any of them. It doesn't matter.) Alternatively, I think it would probably be semantically OK if the urn was even put in there -- in the "cite" attribute. As in... <q cite="urn:uuid:0a8d2f83-d5d2-44e7-bde9-319aaadc219c"> <img src="http://example.com/thumbnail/123" /> </q> <a urn="urn:uuid:0a8d2f83-d5d2-44e7-bde9-319aaadc219c" type="video/mpeg" href="http://example.com/video/123/mpeg">[MPEG]</a> <a urn="urn:uuid:0a8d2f83-d5d2-44e7-bde9-319aaadc219c" type="video/quicktime" href="http://example.com/video/123/mov ">[QuickTime]</a> (That way you don't have to play favorites.) Any chance we can get the "urn" attribute on the <a> element back? :-) (And note... for those that think that "urn:uuid:0a8d2f83-d5d2-44e7-bde9-319aaadc219c" looks ugly. You do NOT have to use URN's that look like that. Another example of a URN is: "urn:ietf:rfc:3023".) See ya -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. charles @ reptile.ca supercanadian @ gmail.com developer weblog: http://ChangeLog.ca/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20061115/17130cb3/attachment.htm>
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