Re: Atom Info Proposal

[Jason Shellen <shellen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave and Dare,

You did see the huge yellow box with explanation text at the top of
the two info feeds, no?

http://www.shellen.com/sandbox/shellen-info.xml

http://www.shellen.com/sandbox/intertwingly-test.xml

I think that this should be done in conjunction with a proper well
known URI scheme and additionally auto-discovery.

Thanks for the feedback thus far, and trust me I still have
reservations about making this look too pretty. I'm coming at this
from the angle of folks who haven't yet got the blogging religion and
wouldn't know the blogosphere if it bit them. We should do something
in the way of education for those folks and I think this is an
excellent vehicle. Again, it's an optional tag.

Cheers,

Jason


On Fri Dec 05 07:05:47 PST 2003, Dare Obasanjo <kpako@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> --- Jason Shellen <shellen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > The full proposal is here:
> >
> >
> http://www.shellen.com/sandbox/atom-info-proposal.html
> 
> I'm not sure what problem this is supposed to solve.
> The complaint with RSS feeds is that the
> browser/client applications should do something smart
> with the link as opposed to displaying an ugly XML
> page. Making it display a prettified XML page doesn't
> really solve the problem.
> 
> Some aggregator authors have come up with proposals
> for solving this problem   such as the feed:// URI
> proposal from Greg Reinacker[0] which is   implemented
> in SharpReader and will be in the next version of RSS
> Bandit [which I should be releasing this weekend
> before I head off to XML 2003].
> 
> [0] http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/archive.aspx?post=656
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