Re: The Atom API is just for blogs? Perception vs. reality

[Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@xxxxxx>]

Mark Stanton wrote:

> ...
> I've also started looking at WebDAV & how it relates to the Atom project.
> Everything I can find is fairly inconclusive to say the least. I have almost
> no knowledge of WebDAV, but have gone over a few old posts on the list & the
> http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/WebDav page.
>
> Should I just be looking at WebDAV or is Atom going to be solving some real
> issues that currently exist in the WebDAV implementation?

WebDAV would work just fine. All we'd need to would be to define some 
custom live properties that turn a given resource into a newsfeed resource.

> ...
> Is this scenario theoretically possible? How would Atom handle the transfer
> of the binary image data along with the text/html content? Is this getting
> into WebDAV territory?

In WebDAV you'd just PUT a separate image resource.

Alternatively we can probably encode images in "data" URIs, although 
clients may need specific support for that; and it will defeat caching 
(which you usually want for images),

> ...

Julian

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