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  • From: Nathan Yergler <nathan AT yergler.net>
  • To: Anhad Jai Singh <ffledgling AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: "cc-devel AT lists.ibiblio.org" <cc-devel AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-devel] Using ccREL with individual media elements on a page
  • Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:53:03 -0700

Hi Anhad,

It's been a while since I looked at those examples, but I suspect the
easiest approach would be to move the <img> tag outside of the <div>
in the example, and use CSS as you suggested to prevent it from being
displayed.

Cheers,

NRY


On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Anhad Jai Singh <ffledgling AT gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> During a recent discussion with Dan about using ccREL to display licensing
> information on a page we found ourselves in a bit of a quandary.
>
> I want to embed the licensing information for media in a page and associate
> licensing information to a specific file/piece of media on the page, but do
> not want this information to be part of the visible HTML.
>
> <div about="CC_image.png" xmlns:dct="http://purl.org/dc/terms/";
> xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#";> <img src="CC_image.png"
> height="200px" /> <br /> This image, entitled <span
> property="dct:title">Sharing Creative Works</span>, by <a
> href="http://creativecommons.org/"; property="cc:attributionName"
> rel="cc:attributionURL dct:creator">Creative Commons</a> is licensed under a
> <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/";>
> Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License</a>. </div>
>
>
>
> The example(above) from the ccREL by Example guide
> (http://labs.creativecommons.org/2011/ccrel-guide/#Images) displays
> licensing information explicitly on the page and if one were to hide the
> parts of the text outside of the tags, then the license would be incomplete.
> I was wondering if there was an alternate way to represent/associate the
> licensing meta-data with the image in a invisible form. Something that is
> present in the DOM of the page but is not visible to the user (This can be
> used by other scripts, plugins etc running in the background). One obvious
> way to do it would be to simply wrap the license text in another <div> tag
> and edit the CSS properties of the page to hide the contents of the tag, but
> I am hoping there is a better way to go about this.
>
> Is anyone aware of alternate representations or any solutions that would
> work in such a scenario?
>
> --
> Regrads,
> Anhad Jai Singh (:ffledgling)
>
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