More Enclosures

This reformulation of enclosures is completely useless except for adding an optional “description” attribute. I think enclosures are groovy but fundamentally inaccessible in ways that are ultimately harmful to the web. Why not just take a cue from HTML and allow three optional attributes: title, alt, and longdesc. This wouldn’t break backwards compatibility with anything and while honestly it probably wouldn’t be used much at least the possibility is there for something. Perhaps Matt May could give some feedback on this.

2 thoughts on “More Enclosures

  1. If you really start listening to podcasts, you’ll soon see the need for more metadata about each enclosure. Especially with the new photo iPods which allow for portable powerpoint presentations and syndicated photo slideshows, but you’d need someway of telling the iPod at what point in the audiofile to show which frame/photo.

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