On Mar 27, 2006, at 7:46 PM, Chris Messina wrote:
Another example of using hAtom could come from the devices
themselves... Imagine using a service proxy between the website you
want and your handheld:
originating website --> proxy --> handheld
While you could use RSS for this, hell, why not use the website you
want? Then you're not scuffling with feed URLs or managing an
aggregator... you're just going to a website (factoryjoe.com/blog).
The beautiful thing would be that the proxy would strip out the hAtom
object and present them, Gmail like, as posts -- viewable by title,
summary or complete. That way, those long long entries or blog
homepages won't take a million years to load because you've got a
transformation engine sitting between you and the destination grabbing
only the stuff that's of high value to you.
That to me seems like the ideal use case: partial loading of web
content based on semantic delimiters.
Now *there's* a business for ya.
Chris
Unless you spec out navigation, other content, etc I still don't see
how you're filling the gap between "feed content" and "web pages" that
you can navigation around and get to other non-blog or feed related
content. Reformatting it *ALL* (or in better selected parts) for
consumption on the other devices is where I can imagine the win being
and that seems to me to come with XHTML, CSS + Education if good use...
I still don't see the hAtom win outside of the subscription context
(which I think is valid, but not handheld specific).
*shrugs*
I'll repeat my comment before though -- I dont' have a blackberry --
haven't used a handheld for real browsing since my Palm V + AvantGo. If
there are sitautions you come up against as a user it would be
beneficial to be vocal about what the stumbling blocks are and get
other web people thinking about them and writing up solutions for the
masses.
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