Ok. I agree that there are arguments in favor and arguments against.
I will go back to working on BlogEd[0], keeping in mind Anotone Roundy's points [1][2], and see if the simplification that I am proposing here, and that is implemented in BlogEd, really do end up creating any problems or confusions. I have not come across any yet.
In the meantime I'll leave the pace open. I think it should be revisited later. The way things are going [3] things are going to be getting a lot more complicated in this spec really fast.
[0] https://bloged.dev.java.net/ [1] http://www.imc.org/atom-syntax/mail-archive/msg11577.html [2] http://www.imc.org/atom-syntax/mail-archive/msg11673.html [3] http://www.imc.org/atom-syntax/mail-archive/msg11662.html
On 17 Nov 2004, at 04:23, Tim Bray wrote:
On Nov 16, 2004, at 11:45 AM, Henry Story wrote:
But as Antone specifies in that mail, the differences are not insurmountable. I have tried to answer some of his most difficult questions in an e-mail [2].
Since they are different on the surface, and most people are going to easily understand that they are different, I just don't see the benefits from peering deep to find the essential sameness. -Tim
