[uf-discuss] Media Metadata, Specifically Video Thumbnails

Wed Aug 16 15:00:18 PDT 2006

On Aug 16, 2006, at 4:46 PM, Steve Williams wrote:
> At 02:34 PM 8/16/2006, Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote:
>> It has been suggested that using class-thumbnail on the <img> element
>> would work for making thumbnails.
>> I was hoping that'd be the answer. Nice and simple.
>> Would it be considered bad form to recommend that to sites in 
> isolation, without referring to a Microformats proposal or 
> specification, much less an XMDP link in the head element?
>> I don't want to do something that might influence a bunch of sites 
> if it would hurt the Microformats effort.

Much the opposite, microformats are based on real world publishing 
experience, so if you can provide such experience, that would be 
helpful in moving a microformat forward.
But I don't see how class="thumbnail" would work for you because the 
thumbnail isn't going to exist on the submitted URL. I'd think you'd 
need something more like <link rel="thumbnail">, because you're 
referencing data that's related to the current document, not within 
the current document.
Peace,
Scott