Re: PaceSimpleContentType

[Tim Bray <Tim.Bray@xxxxxxx>]

On Jun 3, 2004, at 10:00 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote:

> However, there is still a valid use case for these -- carrying 
> multiple representations of a single entry (resource) in the feed. 
> Your proposal makes it easy to represent content that is in a few 
> common formats, at the expense of yet another registry of values to 
> manage, and at the expense of anyone who wants to use a different 
> format or encoding in the content.

This was the motivation for the multipart/alternative that's in the 
current draft.  But, is this a use-case that Atom needs to solve?  The 
only person I know who actually does this is Norm Walsh... oops, he has 
different URIs for 'em.  Nope, don't know anybody doing this.  In fact, 
RSS seems to have gotten along fine without this.  If this can be 
motivated by a use case with actual potential interested users, then 
fine, otherwise I think it's a wouldn't-this-be-nice feature. -Tim