Re: PaceSimpleContentType

[Mark Nottingham <mnot@xxxxxxxx>]

On Jun 3, 2004, at 10:51 PM, Tim Bray wrote:

> 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

Turn it around; what's the use case for designing a new typing and 
encoding system for Atom, versus using what's already defined by the 
Web?



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