Chris Messina recently wrote about how Google's new Calendar missed a trick by not supporting MF's. Google announced today http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/index.html that they are providing a new syndication protocol called Gdata which is based on Atom and RSS syndication specs but it also supports query, authorisation and optimistic concurreny (whatever that might be?)So is this the start of syndication wars. What will Microsoft comeout with as a response - another format extension?
Feature GData Atom* RSS 2.0 Syndication Format Y Y Y Queries Y N N Updates Y Y N Optimistic Concurrency Y N N Authentication Y N N * The "Atom" column refers to both the syndication format and the publication protocol. The reason for mentioning it here is because of the work around hAtom which might link to this. I know Adam Bosworth has talked at length about an Atom Store database (Google)and I was wondering if this is the first step in querying the Atom Store. Google certainly seem to think so. "GData also lets you send data to Google, and update data that Google already has." Any thoughts ... _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
