[tei-council] some questions about non-textual components and media

[Kevin Hawkins]

On 12/18/2012 2:50 PM, Gabriel Bodard wrote:
> On 18/12/2012 19:41, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>> Do remember that if I meet
>>    	<media target="foo.mp4"/>
>> and
>> 	<media target="foo.tiff"/>
>> I really really really don't want to work out that I should use<video>  for one, and<img>
>> for the other, by looking at file suffixes. Either let's have<video>  and<audio>,
>> or mandate mime types.
>>
>> I suspect actually that I could decide to pull the audio from a video file
>> using HTML<audio>, so thats another reason not to use<media>, because
>> it is not precise enough  - what aspect of the media did the author include?
>
> I'd actually prefer to have something generic like<media>  (of which
> <graphic>  is a specialization, and possible audio and video too, if you
> really want) and both mandate @mimetype and something like @medium if
> you want to be able to pull audio only from a video file (or a still
> frame from a multimedia file) or something. I'm sure there are media
> that don't easily fit into one of graphic, video, audio that we might
> want to include in here as well (QTVR; Powerpoint; interactive maps;
> embedded app; holographic projector) so let's be as generic and agnostic
> as possible.

I too am attracted to the idea of a generic element (<media>?) of which 
<graphic> is a specialization ... perhaps, in fact, syntactic sugar for 
<media type="graphic">.