* James Holderness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-06 21:35]: > That sounds great in theory, but in practice you're usually way > better off with something like this:
As a publisher, yes. For authors of clients, particularly clients intended for a specific purpose, the extent to which other existing clients fail to take advantage of the specified features of the format is of little relevance. > That doesn't apply to all forms of content of course Which is the point. In the cases where it doesn’t apply, RSS offers no way to do it at all. Atom does. > Out of curiosity, do you know of any Atom feed readers that > support ruby annotations in titles? No, but I would not be surprised if some web-based aggregator or other passes titles through with markup intact, or could easily do so by adding the ruby markup elements to a whitelist. Also, as long as major clients do not misinterpret the markup in harmful ways and I had some content to publish that was already annotated, I would include the markup anyway – certainly easier for me than going to the effort of scrubbing them, and it gives serendipity a chance. Staying on the beaten path even when the risk of straying a little is minor is no way to make progress… Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
