Artcasting feeds, a new use for enclosures

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
xml
Domain
content

Research direction

Start by reviewing the linked RSS 2.0 enclosure specification and the example feed at scripting.com/misc/artfeed.xml. No repository file, test, or implementation entry point is named, so the scope needs to be agreed before work starts. Done would require a defined repository change and confirmation that the resulting feed is handled as intended by readers.

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Description

We're starting to work with people on artcasting. The idea is we want to send visual art over RSS 2.0 feeds. Photographs. ChatGPT visualizations. Paintings.

The consensus seems to be that we should use the enclosure element, as with podcasting, in this case, if the type begins with image/ then an artcast viewer should handle it, and a others should ignore it.

We were at this place with podcasting in 2001, and needed some examples, so we used Grateful Dead music to start using the technology. This is a similar idea. There's a big difference between an idea and something you can use.

So anyway, here's a test feed. Try subscribing to it in a feed reader you like. Hopefully it either ignores the enclosure or it does the right thing with it, displays it.

Let us know how it works, below. 😄

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