Adeodato Simó wrote: > I'm thinking, maybe I'm mistaken, that the description of the inline > directive is meant to be the description of the feed, as shown by the > agregator to the user. This is normally a full sentence. > > The title of the <link> element, on the other hand, is shown by the > browser in a drop-down, for the user to select the feed to add. This, in > my opinion, should be short, as few words as possible to let the users > differenciate between feeds. > > So, in the case there is only one feed, I think the default "RSS" or > "Atom" was fine: there is no need for more. If you have more than one, > though, you probably want to use stuff like, for example, "Main feed > (all articles)", "Articles in Spanish", and "Articles in English". But > you'd want the description of the feed itself to be somewhat more > verbose.
The feed description is often just the name of the site, or a short phrase like "MySite articles in Spanish". Which works equally well as a list of feeds, for which firefox will display "Subscribe to 'MySite articles in Spanish (RSS)'". Adding another knob to tune this just seems like unnecessary complexity. -- see shy jo
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