Re: Feed Thread Draft Updated

2006-04-27 Thread David Powell
Saturday, April 22, 2006, 1:53:26 AM, James M Snell wrote: So this is what I've got: count = element thr:count { attribute xml:base { atomUri }?, attribute ref { atomUri }?, attribute updated { date-time }?, ( nonNegativeInteger ) } I think that is ok. Aristotle's

Re: Feed Thread Draft Updated

2006-04-22 Thread M. David Peterson
That, or You lied to me when you told me this was a web feed! (credit: 'href (http://plasmasturm.org/code/)) A friend of mine in a compiler writing class produced a compiler with one error message 'you lied to me when you told me this was a program'. – Pete Fenelon On 4/21/06, James M Snell

RE: Feed Thread Draft Updated

2006-04-21 Thread Byrne Reese
Returning from the beyond to cast a vote. James M Snell wrote: a. Status quo. Leave things the way they are in the current draft +1 b. Drop thr:count and thr:when from the spec. -1 I have yet to hear personally an argument compelling to me to believe why these elements should be

Re: Feed Thread Draft Updated

2006-04-21 Thread Robert Sayre
James M Snell wrote: Maybe, but given that WG messed up in not making the link element formally extensible, it's not likely to be pretty. Nice one. a. Status quo. Leave things the way they are in the current draft. -1. James M Snell wrote: None of the implementors I'm aware of are

Re: Feed Thread Draft Updated

2006-04-21 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* James M Snell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-04-13 09:05]: Maybe, but given that WG messed up in not making the link element formally extensible, it's not likely to be pretty. Yes. WGs mess up. It’s just life. In a perfect world, this would be different, but Atom took long enough to ship. What we

Re: Feed Thread Draft Updated

2006-04-21 Thread James M Snell
grumble ... I'm not really happy with it but this would work. To be absolutely honest, David's comments here [1] really got me thinking. It's definitely worth a read and alone was sufficient to sway me on this. I don't like it; the use of the supplemental element is ugly, but it's better than

Re: Feed Thread Draft Updated

2006-04-21 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* James M Snell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-04-22 03:05]: grumble ... I'm not really happy with it but this would work. That’s roughly how I feel about it. :-) It has in fact been the theme all throughout the Thread extension development discussion… To be absolutely honest, David's comments here

Re: Feed Thread Draft Updated

2006-04-21 Thread Eric Scheid
On 22/4/06 10:53 AM, James M Snell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where that gets nasty, of course, is when the href is relative and xml:base is being used to set the Base URI. Publisher would need to make sure that the href/ref combo match up properly Would this be considered a match? link

Re: Feed Thread Draft Updated

2006-04-21 Thread James M Snell
The feedvalidator really does need a ValidButPositivelyIdiotic warning. - James Eric Scheid wrote: On 22/4/06 10:53 AM, James M Snell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where that gets nasty, of course, is when the href is relative and xml:base is being used to set the Base URI. Publisher would

Re: Feed Thread Draft Updated

2006-04-17 Thread James Holderness
James M Snell wrote: a. Status quo. Leave things the way they are in the current draft +1 b. Drop thr:count and thr:when from the spec. +0.5 c. Create a new replies extension element -1 d. Create a supplemental extension element +0

Re: Feed Thread Draft Updated

2006-04-13 Thread James M Snell
A. Pagaltzis wrote: [snip] Maybe we can think of other ways to expose this information so that it fits the Atom extension model? Are those attributes really the only possible approach to this issue? Regards, Maybe, but given that WG messed up in not making the link element formally

Re: Feed Thread Draft Updated

2006-04-13 Thread Eric Scheid
On 13/4/06 8:02 AM, David Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In terms of the considerations to the interoperability of running code, thr:replies seems to beat atom:link in every way. It even manages to be more concise (you don't need the @rel), and you wouldn't need to put thr:count and

Re: Feed Thread Draft Updated

2006-04-13 Thread David Powell
Thursday, April 13, 2006, 6:11:32 AM, Eric Scheid wrote: atom:link beats thr:replies on the basis that I don't need to understand what replies are to discover that there is a link from this thing to that thing. atom processors know what atom:link is, but it wouldn't know what to do with

Re: Feed Thread Draft Updated

2006-04-13 Thread James Holderness
David Powell wrote: But what would processors do with an atom:link? Atom Protocol uses edit, there have been calls for a stylesheet. Links aren't necessarily things that you'd display to users (check HTML out for examples of that: favicon, P3P, Atom/RSS, GRDDL) Well if you've got a decent

Re: Feed Thread Draft Updated

2006-04-13 Thread David Powell
Thursday, April 13, 2006, 8:24:48 AM, Thomas Broyer wrote: c. Create a new replies extension element thr:replies href=... type=... hreflang=... title=... count=... when=... / -0.5, it *is* a link

RE: Feed Thread Draft Updated

2006-04-13 Thread Kirit Sælensminde
See below... http://www.kirit.com/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-atom- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Powell Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 4:49 PM To: Thomas Broyer Cc: Atom-Syntax Subject: Re: Feed Thread Draft Updated I'm bothered about

Re: Feed Thread Draft Updated

2006-04-13 Thread Eric Scheid
On 13/4/06 6:59 PM, David Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But what would processors do with an atom:link? Atom Protocol uses edit, there have been calls for a stylesheet. Links aren't necessarily things that you'd display to users (check HTML out for examples of that: favicon, P3P, Atom/RSS,

Re: Feed Thread Draft Updated

2006-04-13 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* David Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-04-13 11:10]: But what would processors do with an atom:link? Atom Protocol uses edit, there have been calls for a stylesheet. Links aren't necessarily things that you'd display to users (check HTML out for examples of that: favicon, P3P, Atom/RSS,

Re: Feed Thread Draft Updated

2006-04-12 Thread David Powell
Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 9:20:32 PM, James M Snell wrote: I also added a new warning for implementors: Implementors should note that while the Atom Syndication Format does not forbid the inclusion of namespaced extension attributes on the Atom link element, neither does is explicitly allow

Re: Feed Thread Draft Updated

2006-04-12 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* David Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-04-13 00:15]: This seems to be the wrong priority to me. Convincing arguments, IMHO; +1. James: As regards Robert’s vociferous comments, you have to acknowledge that while the rest of the draft was hashed out in several iterations, these `thr:count` and

Re: Feed Thread Draft Updated

2006-04-12 Thread M. David Peterson
Hey Folks,Great discussion going on here... Thanks! http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2006/04/the_power_of_the_people.html On 4/12/06, A. Pagaltzis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * David Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-04-13 00:15]: This seems to be the wrong priority to me.Convincing arguments, IMHO;

Re: Feed Thread Draft Updated

2006-04-12 Thread James M Snell
A. Pagaltzis wrote: * David Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-04-13 00:15]: This seems to be the wrong priority to me. Convincing arguments, IMHO; +1. Sorry, not convinced. I never once claimed that the motivation for using link was because it looked better. What I did claim was that

Re: Feed Thread Draft Updated

2006-04-12 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* James M Snell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-04-13 04:10]: What I did claim was that there is little to no technical justification for exactly duplicating the link element for the sole purpose of introducing two new optional attributes... David countered that having this information is clearly

Feed Thread Draft Updated

2006-04-11 Thread James M Snell
The Feed Thread draft has been updated. http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-snell-atompub-feed-thread-07.txt Among various editorial changes, the in-reply-to id attribute is now called ref. I also added a new warning for implementors: Implementors should note that while the Atom

Re: Feed Thread Draft Updated

2006-04-11 Thread James Holderness
James M Snell wrote: The Feed Thread draft has been updated. http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-snell-atompub-feed-thread-07.txt I am an absolutely terrible proofreader so I'd really appreciate it if someone could do a quick scan over the current doc to find the typos that I know must

Re: Feed Thread Draft Updated

2006-04-11 Thread James M Snell
James Holderness wrote: [snip] Section 4, paragraph 1: into a separate feed document (singular document) its value is assumed (no apostrophe) Section 4, last paragraph: neither does it explicitly allow (is - it) Section 6: Security considerations: (see section 5) (6 - 5) Fixed in

Re: Feed Thread Draft Updated

2006-04-11 Thread James Holderness
James M Snell wrote: Not a proofreading issue, but shouldn't section 5 say something about DOS attacks using replies links to third party servers? I wouldn't be surprised if some clients automatically subscribed to all replies links in a feed even if they were 100MB zip files on a completely