James Holderness and Paul Querna have joined the RSS Advisory Board: http://www.rssboard.org/news/65 Welcome to the group!...
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rcade
Oct 3, 2006 10:18 pm
... As the proponent, I'm withdrawing this proposal before the vote begins. I'd like to see whether alternate terms such as netcasting and feedcasting gain any...
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rcade
Oct 5, 2006 1:28 am
In the 2.5 years I've been a member of the RSS Advisory Board, three questions have been asked most often by programmers having difficulty interpreting the RSS...
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Greg Smith
ecomputerd
Oct 5, 2006 2:28 am
I agree substantially with moving in this direction, though as I recall the conclusions *I made in my head (and argued heavily for at the time)* were 1)...
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rcade
Oct 5, 2006 12:12 pm
... I'll support any direction the board wants to go on these three questions, but I don't think we should change requirements in the spec in response to...
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rcade
Oct 5, 2006 12:28 pm
... Here's my take on why item-description is the only element that allows HTML: 1. RSS 0.91 [1] explicitly prohibited HTML markup in RSS aside from 96 HTML...
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rcade
Oct 5, 2006 12:35 pm
... That part of the spec is pretty clear. All link and url elements must begin with an official URI scheme such as http:// or https://: ...
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Greg Smith
ecomputerd
Oct 5, 2006 12:52 pm
"We ought to decide what we think the spec means and encourage others to support that interpretation." I agree completely. Here's my point-by-point...
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Greg Smith
ecomputerd
Oct 5, 2006 1:22 pm
While I haven't personally reviewed all your statements here regarding the specification, I have no reason to disbelieve them. I think you're saying the...
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Greg Smith
ecomputerd
Oct 5, 2006 2:08 pm
I do want to point out an interesting dichotomy. With respect to relative URLs, the "spec is pretty clear" yet we are suggesting to define it as a "SHOULD"....
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rcade
Oct 5, 2006 2:24 pm
... The draft spec is still clear that link and url elements MUST begin with a base URI: http://www.rssboard.org/rss-draft-1#data-types-url "In all link and...
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Eric Lunt
elunt
Oct 5, 2006 3:45 pm
Well, I can tell you all that what Rogers proposes for the interpretation of these three questions exactly match the assumptions that FeedBurner makes about...
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James Holderness
james_holder...
Oct 5, 2006 6:56 pm
... If I were forced to guess the intention of the original spec regarding these issues I'd probably reach the same conclusions. However, I don't think that ...
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rcade
Oct 5, 2006 7:44 pm
... It's within the board's discretion to decide that the roadmap does not permit us to touch anything in the spec that affects the interpretation of RSS. We...
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James Holderness
james_holder...
Oct 7, 2006 12:18 am
... The most common place that I've seen HTML titles is in search results. Try doing a search on Bloglines or the Google blog search for a term that's likely...
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rcade
Oct 10, 2006 5:50 pm
The draft spec has been revised to take a more conservative approach on enclosures and HTML markup. http://www.rssboard.org/rss-draft-1 In both cases, the...
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Eric Lunt
elunt
Oct 12, 2006 10:30 am
I like, in theory, taking the Postel's Law approach for the multiple enclosures issue, but it still gives me pause to see "aggregators SHOULD expect to...
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rcade
Oct 13, 2006 9:37 pm
A new draft of the proposed spec has been published: http://www.rssboard.org/rss-draft-1 This draft fixes an error in the description of the category element ...
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rcade
Oct 13, 2006 9:42 pm
... We can do a lot in the RSS Profile to tell people that, because the profile can cover current usage in detail: ...
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Randy Morin
randymorin
Oct 26, 2006 6:57 pm
I propose that the RSS Advisory Board adopt a specification for RSS auto-discovery to give users and developers formal definition and guidance for using this...
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rcade
Oct 26, 2006 10:01 pm
... I second the proposal. There's already work underway on RSS-Public, for members who'd like to join Randy and I in drafting the spec. With the second,...
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Randy Morin
randymorin
Nov 19, 2006 8:42 pm
As I've previous written here, we've been working on official specification for RSS autodiscovery. http://www.rssboard.org/rss-autodiscovery To date, there has...
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rcade
Nov 20, 2006 3:18 pm
... I second the proposal, so board members have the next seven days to vote on the adoption of this spec. Thanks for putting this together, Randy....
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Eric Lunt
elunt
Nov 20, 2006 5:55 pm
+1 . Nice and simple. About the only thing I would have added is that, if there is more than one feed referenced (even though it is NOT RECOMMENDED), that the...
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Randy Morin
randymorin
Nov 20, 2006 6:25 pm
Agreed. That would be a good addition. Randy ... difficult for...
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James Holderness
james_holder...
Nov 20, 2006 7:26 pm
... I'm copying this to RSS-Public since I have a few comments and the document suggested discussing comments and corrections there. On the whole, it looks...
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Jason Douglas
jdouglas
Nov 21, 2006 1:14 am
+1 -jason...
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mdbookspan
Nov 21, 2006 2:49 pm
... second. ... +1...
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James Holderness
james_holder...
Nov 22, 2006 12:48 am
Some other suggestions that you may want to consider incorporating in the spec: - Describe the differences in implementation between HTML and XHTML (possibly...
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James Holderness
james_holder...
Nov 23, 2006 10:33 am
... For the record I'm +1. I'd like to see some of the issues addressed that have been discussed in rss-public, but if there are strong objections to any...
