[vorbis-dev] comment field proposal

[Monty]

> On Sun, 14 May 2000, you wrote:
> > > What if the comment fields were defined to be HTML/XML?  That way you
> > > could put ordinary text in them - only "<" and a couple of other
> > > characters would require special treatment.
> > 
> > Woah... aren't we going a tad far for what was supposed to be a simple
> > comment field?
> > 
> > I may be mistaken on this, but I thought the comments field was just there
> > to store absolutely essential "I need this immediately forget everything
> > else" type information.  Now there seems to be a great deal of talk about
> > putting in an insane number of details...
> 
> Actually, it doesn't add any detail to the code, just to the documentation. 
> You wouldn't be required to use the feature.

It adds nothing to the Ogg code, but means that any player is going to have to 
have a full HTML or XML parser to deal with comments.

XML/HTML gives us little/nothing toward the *desired* functionality of the 
text comment fields.

Monty

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