Re: FYI: Making Atom Happen

[Steve Jenson <sjenson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

It seems that what Don is saying is that if we simply reused 
the element names, reused the basic structure, and gave a 
set of rules to codify behaviour then he'd be happy with it.  I think
that's obviously wrong albeit a popular statement.

Experience, and common sense, tells us that you can't 
tighten a format after it's launched. Rules tacked onto existing 
formats are rarely followed. RSS is loose and ambiguous and
one of the goals of Atom is to be as unambiguous as possible. 
Lots of mistakes were learned from watching the evolution of 
RSS usage. 


-Steve


----- Original Message -----
From: Randy Charles Morin <randy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Dec 02 14:29:36 PST 2003
Subject: FYI: Making Atom Happen
To: atom-syntax@xxxxxxx


http://www.docuverse.com/blog/donpark/2003/12/02.html#a1048

 

Randy

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