Thomas Broyer wrote:
Hi there,
First, let's introduce myself: I'm a 24 year-old French programmer living in Dijon, France. Some day, I'd have liked to create my blog but got stuck by all these RSS thingies and API stuff... I'm back now to syndication as a user and programmer, and found Atom as the new unified standard for syndication and web service API.
Reading the Atom spec (draft -05), one thing shocked me: what is this type=HTML for?
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I agree with what you say, but I fear this topic has been discussed and dicussed again in the past with no result. For some reason, people seem to prefer a format where "bad" data (tag soup) is allowed, and the task to fix it is put onto the recipients rather than the creators. For me it's very obvious that this is the wrong approach -- if you can require the recipients to do that, you can also require the same responsibility from the producers.
Anyway, I recently made a much more modest request that the spec should state that XHTML is preferred over HTML (because many recipients will not be willing to process tag soup, so in the best case formatting is lost). It seems that we can't even get a consensus for that, which is really disappointing considering the expectations I had 18 months ago :-(
Best regards, Julian
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