attics of my life

A few weeks ago, I added support for rss feeds for MosaicGlobe galleries and I was curious now if these would work with the new iPhoto photocasting. So last night, I stopped by my local Apple Store and picked up a copy of iLife '06.

First, I took a quick look at iWeb and the new iPhoto integration, which is very cool. The site I put up is here. After a bit of playing there, I decided to try and see if you could subscribe to the gallery rss feeds through iPhoto. To my suprise it worked.

There still seem to be a couple of details missing. A photocast published by iPhoto is handled different by Safari when you browse to the URL, it opens iPhoto and asks you if you would like to subscribe to that photocast. The RSS feeds from MosaicGlobe show up as a regular old RSS feed when going to the page or using the autodiscovery RSS button.

The feed from an iPhoto photocast is pretty much a standard RSS feed with the image embedded in a link tag. But there is this interesting bit of extra stuff. The RSS is extended by something named "apple-wallpapers". Inside each RSS item there is this:

# Date the photo was taken
<apple-wallpapers:photoDate></apple-wallpapers:photoDate>

# I believe this is the date the photo was uploaded.
<apple-wallpapers:cropDate></apple-wallpapers:cropDate>

# Thumbnail Image URL
<apple-wallpapers:thumbnail></apple-wallpapers:thumbnail>

# Full Image URL
<apple-wallpapers:image></apple-wallpapers:image>

# MetaData
<apple-wallpapers:metadata>
  # Don't understand this format.
  <PhotoDate>2176.860787</PhotoDate>
  # Comments from iPhoto
  <Comments> </Comments>
</apple-wallpapers:metadata>

I haven't figured out at the time of this writing what the extensions are for.

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