RE: Atom Info Proposal

["Danny Ayers" <danny666@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#URI-scheme

> I'm not sure what problem this is supposed to solve.

I think it's icing on the cake.

> 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

"Good practice: New URI schemes

Authors of specifications SHOULD NOT introduce a new URI scheme when an
existing scheme provides the desired properties of identifiers and their
relation to resources."

http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#URI-scheme