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Re: Posted PaceDeclareVictoryOnFormat

On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 02:21:57 +0100, Henry Story <henry.story@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Perhaps what should be done is not so much declare victory on the
> format, but move everyone to help solve the problems with the atom API
> that seems currently to be completely at a standstill.
> 
> There is a mailing list available to discuss that topic at
> http://www.imc.org/atom-protocol/index.html
> 
> Let's perhaps slow down the movement on the syntax front and move to
> completing the API side of things. That way we can use the API to help
> polish the syntax.

+1 to working on the protocol and using it to polish the format.

-1 to PaceDeclareVictoryOnFormat since we are missing:

1. Any mention of extensibility in the format spec.
2. A feed level 'image' element, ala RSS 2.0 which, "Specifies a GIF, 
   JPEG or PNG image that can be displayed with the channel."

   -joe

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Joe Gregorio        http://bitworking.org