On 11/5/05 3:17 AM, "Robert Sayre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hmm. I can see the merit in your rationale. Does it meet a need?
The need is to not confuse users. Safari under tiger now does RSS
auto-discovery, which means there will be many totally-non-geek users who
might well get upset if the "Subscribe to RSS" function appears to be
borked. We're about to cross the chasm with RSS/Atom -- now would be a good
time to make sure the folks on the other side will have a pleasant
experience.
Safari is however having to make do using rough heuristics instead of
following a documented specification.
Right now, it suggests links to "application/atom+xml" resources as being
feeds, but sometime in the future that will be sub-optimal once/if folks
start publishing Atom Entry Documents.
I suspect it probably also suggests the following link as an RSS 1.0 feed:
<link href='...' rel="alternate" type="application/rdf+xml">
even if it were on this page:
http://dannyayers.com/misc/about/biog.htm
which (I'm guessing) would more likely to lead to a FOAF document than an
RSS 1.0 document.
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