[vorbis-dev] comment field proposal

[Daniel Phillips]

On Tue, 16 May 2000, you wrote:
> > 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.

You wouldn't build it into the app - the app would shell to a browser, or a
browser component would be embedded in the app.  That's all good and
forward-looking IMHO, and indeed, It's *required* for the metadata stream.


-- 
Daniel

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