[Playlist] portability, application page, schema files

[Matthias Friedrich]

On Sunday, 2006-12-31, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
[...]
> * i noticed that i am not fully clear
>   about how xspf is cross-platform or where
>   it could be not cross-platform.
>   absolute filenames from unix will still
>   not work on a windows machine or am
>   i missing something?

We use URLs and URLs are of course platform independent.

[...]
> * i think we should talk about the "application"
>   section on the website again. the current state
>   is okay but does not really satisfy me.
>   is chronological order really better than
>   alphabetal? also maybe all that groups have
>   different interesting attributes. a lib maybe
>   license, language and platform. also does xiph
>   give you mysql access? we could allow the user to
>   sort for a custom column then. i think it
>   needs improvement, i want to to help and we should
>   define how it should be.

I don't think a database is needed. Sorting by columns can be done
using JavaScript if necessary.

[...]
> * were the offline schema files run through
>   the test suite?

Yes, of course.

>   i noticed that the RNG schema
>   uses "\d+" as pattern for the version so
>   maybe we need aditional quality assurance
>   at that place. (no offense - i try to improve
>   everywhere.)

What do you have in mind? Change it so that it only accepts "1" or "2"?

Cheers,
	Matthias