This is not likely to be a problem this time around now that I'm
shepherding the doc as an individual submission. While my key goal is
to just get it done in a way that reflects reality as closely as
possible, I'm not adverse to trying to address the RSS problem.
- James
A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> [snip]
> The autodiscovery spec has a different problem -- at least two
> previous motions to get it on track have fizzled out without
> results.
> [snip]
... 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...
Some other suggestions that you may want to consider incorporating in the spec: - Describe the differences in implementation between HTML and XHTML (possibly...
... To take that one step further, looking over the draft of the Atom Autodiscovery (is there really any need for two different specifications anyway?) has a...
I've tried before to work RSS and Atom together. In that case, it was content-types. The Atom WG said NO. They don't seem interested in cooperation. Thanks, ...
... What exactly was that about? Is there an archive of that discussion? ... Seems to me like a somewhat large leap to make. Just because they weren't...
... Here's the archive. http://www.imc.org/atom-syntax/ I wish I could find the exact thread, but it's rather large and doesn't seem to be well indexed by the...
... Ah. I expected this would be the point in question. The problem is of course that RSS != 1.x has problems in terms of IANA procedure... I can understand...
This is not likely to be a problem this time around now that I'm shepherding the doc as an individual submission. While my key goal is to just get it done in...
... It would be nice if Atom and RSS could share the same spec for this, but I suspect the Atom WG could be arguing over the details for months to come. ...
... I am no WG chair, so I won't make any proclamations on consensus in the Atom WG, but from where I stand, there is a strong faction in favour of "just ship...
... That particular specification has been surprisingly uncontroversial. The only issue I can imagine that could come up is that application/rss+xml is...
... Perhaps. It depends somewhat on your definition of "incompatible". At any rate, bare in mind that the current Atom autodiscovery draft has been around...
... You would think, but have you looked at that thread I mentioned from earlier this year [1]? Or the one from May of last year [2]? The current discussion is...
FWIW, with the permission of the WG chairs and the previous editor, I just resubmitted the atom discovery draft as an individual submission. Regardless of how...
... I agree. If an Atom autodiscovery spec comes out that contradicts something in our spec, the RSS board could make changes to unify the recommendations, if...
... I just realised I managed to confuse your reply with Randy's message about the Atom WG previously not wanting to cooperate on content-types. The message...
... With a few minutes, I could probably give about a dozen different plausible interpretations of that particular interchange; but suffice it to say that it...
... These two things seem the only real differences from the Atom draft: The first one seems silly (although it is in line with the HTML spec: "The title...
We'll be updating the spec to include the consensus comments. MHO - I would continue to recommend only one auto-disco link, but... - We should document how...