... I think that the following sentence in data-types-urls serves the same purpose without sounding like a new requirement for RSS implementers: These elements...
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Sam Ruby
sa3ruby
Mar 1, 2006 11:49 am
... I am fine with that wording, Now lets look at how these two suggestions can be compbined. These elements MUST NOT contain IRIs. IRIs MUST be converted to...
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Sam Ruby
sa3ruby
Mar 1, 2006 12:03 pm
In 4.1.1.20.6 is the statement, A publisher SHOULD provide a guid with each item. Simply put, while your heart is clearly in the right place, I think that you...
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Sam Ruby
sa3ruby
Mar 1, 2006 12:13 pm
... Upon further reflection, that sentence is misleading. The set of valid IRIs is a proper set supersets of the set of valid URIs. So disallowing IRIs would...
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A. Pagaltzis
a22pag
Mar 1, 2006 12:27 pm
... I think the correct wording for the spec would be that IRIs with non-ASCII characters MUST be given in their punycode-encoded URI representation. Regards, ...
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rcade
Mar 1, 2006 12:46 pm
... The Comments section of the Harvard spec includes this sentence: "In all cases, it's recommended that you provide the guid, and if possible make it a...
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rcade
Mar 1, 2006 2:09 pm
I've updated the draft spec on both the web site and wiki. There's a lot of debate here and elsewhere about whether this effort would be better pursued as a...
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rcade
Mar 1, 2006 2:50 pm
I'm going to work on a "best practices" document for Really Simple Syndication, so I need a methodology to approach the task. The term "best" is subjective, of...
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Randy Morin
randymorin
Mar 1, 2006 3:12 pm
I would include iTunes. Randy ... directly ... popular...
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rcade
Mar 1, 2006 3:17 pm
... I just fired up iTunes for the first time for a new iPod. Does it support RSS reading, or just the enclosures support in RSS?...
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Sam Ruby
sa3ruby
Mar 1, 2006 3:27 pm
... While I still have a strong foreboding feeling that I will regret this, I have gone ahead and added a very strictly scoped message based on the original...
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Sam Ruby
sa3ruby
Mar 1, 2006 3:29 pm
... +1 ... +1 ... +1 - Sam Ruby...
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rcade
Mar 1, 2006 3:29 pm
... as such. You're referring to the RSS examples in the draft spec, correct? If so, I'll add guids to them in the next draft....
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Sam Ruby
sa3ruby
Mar 1, 2006 3:43 pm
... This is a much more viable approach. I'm confident that you would do so anyway, but I think that the document should be clearly and visibly dated: perhaps...
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Sam Ruby
sa3ruby
Mar 1, 2006 3:47 pm
... Yes. Excellent. Once that draft is made available, I'll refresh the Feed Validator tests to match. - Sam Ruby...
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Randy Morin
randymorin
Mar 1, 2006 3:50 pm
I've never tried to use it as an RSS reader, but I imagine it would suck, if it worked at all. But if you have enclosures, then iTunes will pull metadata from...
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rcade
Mar 1, 2006 4:26 pm
... If the clients are not limited, what metric would reflect a best practice -- 90 percent support in all clients that people want to document on the wiki?...
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Randy Morin
randymorin
Mar 1, 2006 4:35 pm
I think the data has more value than the outcome of the process. Randy...
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ecomputerd
Mar 1, 2006 7:07 pm
Along the same lines, I think the "data" of which aggregators support what elements is important. Of even greater usefulness may be the failure modes of using...
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rcade
Mar 1, 2006 11:31 pm
I conducted another aggregator test like the one on Loic Le Meur's name today to see whether eight of the leading RSS clients support détente: ...
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Sam Ruby
sa3ruby
Mar 2, 2006 7:55 pm
... In the first 24 hours that this fix has been online... there have been no complaints. Looking at the referer logs for unique referers from the page...
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James Housley
jehousley
Mar 2, 2006 9:21 pm
... I know I have gotten questions by two people about why their feeds are now failing on feedvalidator.org. But said they were too busy to comment, but might...
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Sam Ruby
sa3ruby
Mar 3, 2006 3:56 pm
... I have actually found one complaint: http://www.feedforall.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4257 I'd suggest that the RSS-Board take a look at that feed, and in ...
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Randy Morin
randymorin
Mar 3, 2006 4:15 pm
Done. Others should feel free to expand or contradict my statements. Thanks, Randy...
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ecomputerd
Mar 3, 2006 5:35 pm
At this point, I am rather against GUIDs being "SHOULDed"; (is that a word?) because there is nothing in the current "Harvard" spec that indicates the GUID is...
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rcade
Mar 3, 2006 5:58 pm
... Here's SHOULD in RFC 2119, which defines behavior that's optional but recommended: "SHOULD: This word, or the adjective "RECOMMENDED", mean that there may...
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ecomputerd
Mar 3, 2006 6:48 pm
I agree with your comments wrt "2.0.1-rv-6". My comments were directed towards a comparison with the specification on Harvard's site which I looked at just...
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rcade
Mar 3, 2006 8:28 pm
... I overlooked it too. It wasn't until I was finishing the first draft of the proposed spec last month that I saw that recommendation in the Comments...
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rcade
Mar 5, 2006 7:59 pm
I've recreated the "Détente" on the board wiki so people can add their own tests: ...
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rcade
Mar 7, 2006 6:32 pm
The Really Simple Syndication format contains only five required elements -- rss, channel, title, link, and description -- and either a title or description in...
