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Done! len ..I can't mail to xml-dev. Could you forward Lucas' reply there? cheers Bill Lucas Gonze wrote: > Hey folks, > >> Nothing is more powerful than a web page with an edit button. >> > > Ok, so -- > > The insight that powered Webjay was that you can apply all the > traditional web discovery tools to audio and video, even though audio > and video are opaque in comparison to HTML, as long as you demand that > web standards be applied. Along those lines I have been working for the > past few years on an approach to A/V which pretends there is no such > thing as rtsp:// (since it's not RESTful), or ASX (which is not XML), or > DRM (which breaks web architecture), or Kazaa (ditto on web arch). > My major project along with Webjay is the XSPF playlist format, which is > intended to bring web standards to playlist formats. SMIL has absorbed > most of the high-end talent available for timed media and XML, but for > various reasons it is not right for web-scale discovery. M3U isn't XML, > so ad-hoc XML formats keep popping up to replace it; XSPF standardizes > those ad-hoc formats. > > XSPF needs you. It takes a huge amount of hacker energy to make > something like this go all the way, and most XML hacker energy right now > goes into feed formats or HTML, with a bit left over for WS-*. We need > a validator. We need to be able to syndicate playlists, especially to > hardware mp3 players. We need more players and authoring tools. We > need better documentation. We need an interface between XSPF and > metadata communities like Musicbrainz and Wikipedia. We need tools > which understand the XSPF architecture. We need python, perl, PHP, C#, > Ruby, and elisp libraries. We need whacky inventions. > > Anyway, it's great to get to talk about my work among peers here. > Thanks for bringing it up, Bill. > > - Lucas
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