Re: PhotoBlogging

["Richard Gaskin <Ambassador@FourthWorld.com>" <Ambassador@FourthWorld.com>]

--- In syndication@yahoogroups.com, mof-syndication@m... 
wrote:
> "Mark Nottingham" <mnot@m...> wrote:
> >I'm interested in syndicating references to photographs, i.e., 
JPEGs, not
> >HTML.
> >I'm leaning towards using the rdf:about to link to the image 
itself, but
> >to use rss:link to point at an HTML page containing that 
image, along with
> >the dc elements above.
> I have been thinking some of the same thoughts, and agree 
that this is
> the way to go.
> 
> That way, all your statements are about the image, which is 
what is
> interesting - presumably the HTML page is just for 
presentation, and
> aggregators will just see a title and description as usual.

I've been looking at supporting link types other than HTML in an 
RSS reader I'm building into some software.

My original thought was that my softwar should handle any data 
tye it can internally, and pass HTML and other types to the 
browser.

I like where the W3C is going with images, but that's only one 
type of data.  Do they have a more general spec for non-HTML 
types?

More specifically, if my app can handle the data type present in 
the target HTML, how can I know to get that resource specifically 
without having to download and parse the link's HTML?