If I could distract folks from the champagne and crudities for a moment: First - I just received a rewrite of the spec draft in nicely-styled XHTML 1.0, from someone (who wishes to remain anonymous) who refers to the IETF docs as "sooooo 1989" -
http://dannyayers.com/atom/draft-ietf-atompub-format-10.xhtml Second - I just read 3 reviews of Atom (linked from Dave Winer's blog) containing significant criticism, much of it valid. However the target of these posts wasn't Atom itself, but the 'RSS 2.0 and Atom Compared' doc (on the Wiki/Tim's snapshot). It does make sense to make the info available in a friendly fashion, but in this case it seems to have backfired. A suggestion for subsequent material - assume the RSS community doesn't know the difference between normative and informative. Third - any suggestions for something useful to do with the 'Finally Atom' blog/data [1]? I set it up on a TypePad account when they were beta, but have been paying for it since they came out of beta. I can't really justify the expense any more, especially since I don't really have time to make it any more interesting than endless 'X supports Atom'. (I don't think the protocol needs promotion in the same way as the format did). On a not-unrelated note - who's the best contact for atomenabled.org? Cheers, Danny. [1] http://danja.typepad.com/fecho/ -- http://dannyayers.com
