Re: Atom 0.2 feedback

[Sam Ruby <rubys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim Bray wrote:
> 3. The 0.2 snapshot is actually less functional than RSS in one 
> important respect.  At 'ongoing' I tend to write really long entries. 
> With RSS 0.2, I can excerpt them in the RSS feed and still (via the 
> horrid escaped-HTML kludge) put hyperlinks and some styling in the 
> excerpt.  Since <summary> doesn't allow markup, I can't do any styling 
> there, right?  So is it OK to put my teaser in <content>, which does 
> allow this, or is the semantic of <content> that the content must be 
> complete?  At ongoing, if the <description> in the RSS is *not* the full 
> text of the entry, I signal this with a trailing "...".  If we are going 
> to allow non-complete <content> elements should this be made explicit 
> with a full=(yes|no) attribute?
>
> Put another way, it seems wrong that the ability to style/markup is 
> coupled to whether or not you want to provide complete content.

Looking at the feed [1] that Tim produced, it is clear that the 
restriction that only content can have markup will result in people 
mislabeling their summaries as content.

This needs to be fixed.

- Sam Ruby

[1] http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/ongoing.pie