atom:paperclip (was: atom:link state of play)

[Robert Sayre <mint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lucas Gonze wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Robert Sayre wrote:
>
> > Lucas Gonze wrote:
> >
> > > "prefetch" is an obvious candidate.  The downside is that it doesn't 
> > > encompass all the uses supplied for the RSS 2.0 tag.
> > I'm confused. This is precisely the problem with that RSS2 tag.
> >
> > If you want to download something in the middle of the night, that's 
> > fine... I don't see why we should write it into the spec.
>
>
> I don't know yet what I think about it, because I can't figure out why 
> the original enclosure tag accomplished anything at all.

There are some things that Dave has figured out pretty well. The main 
feature of <enclosure> is not prefetching or any such nonsense. It's the 
appearance of a paperclip icon in the user interface, just like email. 
This is subtly but critically different than content @src. So, I can see 
a use for a hypothetical <atom:paperclip> element, and I agree with 
Graham and Eric now.[0] Still think "attachment" and "enclosure" are 
terrible names, but maybe that's the best we can do.

Robert Sayre

[0] http://www.imc.org/atom-syntax/mail-archive/msg10626.html