Enhancement Proposal: Title Attribute for RemoteItem

[nathangathright]

After looking at the publisher feeds proposal, I believe the <remoteItem> tag would benefit from the addition of an optional title attribute.

Obviously, a canonical <title> is accessible if one goes to the trouble of scraping the remote content in question, but for some use cases, that’s a rather high barrier to entry. A title attribute on the <remoteItem> tag would provide useful context before accessing that content.

This does create the risk of mismatches between the title attribute and the remote <title> tag. As time goes on, remote content (podcasts, publishers, bands, episodes, songs) may change their name. But similar to <a href="">Inner Text</a> in links, this is a small downside to provide some amount of context.

Examples

Publisher Feeds

On Episodes.fm, I currently display the <itunes:author> tag below the podcast name. It would be nice to replace this with a link to a publisher page, and pulling a title from an attribute would be more appropriate than using the <itunes:author> value.

Podroll

Same for Podroll, a title attribute would allow apps enough additional context to display a link without scraping the remote content in advance.

[daveajones]

Thanks. Linking to Phase 7 plan.

[daveajones]

This has been added.