lj-embed content in feeds

[forresto]

Title
lj-embed content in feeds

Short, concise description of the idea
Include embed code in rss/atom feeds.

Full description of the ideaAs of now lj-embed videos etc are just left out of feeds, see http://forresto.livejournal.com/data/atom vs Read more... )

Comments

[azurelunatic]

A suggestion that goes the other way: http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/716138.html

that is a different issue

[forresto]

Enclosures have a different semantic purpose than inline-embedded videos.

[gerg]

This would be neat.

[mordyn4]

a placeholder

At the least.

Thank you.

[forresto]

Anybody out there read feeds in feed readers? Anybody watch videos in those feed readers?

Re: Thank you.

[7rin]

I don't, but I know people who do.

I vote yes.

[vzaliva]

[charliemc]

+1

[tecknicaltom]

+1

While I don't use LJ much anymore myself, I do try to keep up with my friends' LJs with RSS. My feeds from other sources display videos inline, but since lj-embed isn't even a valid tag, my reader strips it out and I get no indication that there was a video there.
Most feed readers strip out bad html according to their capabilities of displaying media and their security settings, so there's no reason not to inline the embed into the feeds.
Even if the feed provided enough information for me to fetch the iframe, I could write a plugin to my feed reader, but as it stands now, the lj-embed tells my reader nothing about the actual content of the post.