Re: tagline -> subtitle

[Antone Roundy <antone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, February 2, 2005, at 09:49  AM, Henry Story wrote:
> Why not go one step further in generality and call the tagline the 
> summary? Then we will be closer
> to the point I had been making in PaceEntriesAllTheWayDown2, and one 
> step closer to showing that
> a Feed head is the same structure as an Entry. Or if you go the 
> Fielding way with the recursive pace,
> that a Feed is a structure that is a subclass of the Entry structure. 
> And then we will really cut the
> length of the spec down to its core.

Because it's not a summary, which shows that a Feed head isn't quite 
the same thing as an Entry.  It would be conceivable, though perhaps 
not advisable (I'd have to think about it), to add a subtitle element 
to entry, but I can't really see adding a summary element to feed.

> Henry Story
>
> On 2 Feb 2005, at 17:17, Julian Reschke wrote:
>
> > Graham wrote:
> > > Any chance of renaming atom:tagline to atom:subtitle? The two sample 
> > > feeds posted today have the taglines "ongoing fragmented essay by 
> > > Tim Bray" and "WebDAV related news". Aren't taglines meant to be 
> > > funny or catchy or clever?
> > > The relevant definitions from dictionary.com are:
> > >  tagline: An often repeated phrase associated with an individual, 
> > > organization, or commercial product; a slogan.
> > >  subtitle: A secondary, usually explanatory title, as of a literary 
> > > work.
> > > The second seems much broader and more useful, and there's nothing 
> > > stopping you using a slogan as subtitle.
> >
> > +1