Re: IE7 Feed Rendering Issue

2006-03-09 Thread M. David Peterson
btw... to be perfectly clear, your statement includes the word consumers which, if thought of in terms of the end user, then in fact your point could be seen as valid; or in other words It should be the end users choice to use the internal viewer, or the directives set forth by the author.

Re: IE7 Feed Rendering Issue

2006-03-09 Thread M. David Peterson
Aristotle, Both of these are services, not browsers. As a service, its understandable... Limited serverresources would justify this, as would the need to cache the data feed, and the related transformation or css files. However, when the client accesses the feed directly from the browser, the

Re: IE7 Feed Rendering Issue

2006-03-09 Thread M. David Peterson
for user definable rendering of a web feed. and publisher definable. Sorry, what I said, was in fact, not inclusive of your point regarding publisher control. There are plenty of feed readers that offer this level of control. For example, IE 6, Fx, Opera, and Safari -- yes, they are browsers ,

Re: IE7 Feed Rendering Issue

2006-03-09 Thread David Nesting
On 3/9/06, David Nesting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/9/06, M. David Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If, in fact, what you mean by this *IS* that its the end users choice, then I would tend to agree... as long as the option exists. That was, actually, what I was trying to say. Oops, I quoted

Re: IE7 Feed Rendering Issue

2006-03-09 Thread David Nesting
On 3/9/06, M. David Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If, in fact, what you mean by this *IS* that its the end users choice, then I would tend to agree... as long as the option exists. That was, actually, what I was trying to say. You are publishing an XML feed, not a web page. You are publishing

Re: IE7 Feed Rendering Issue

2006-03-09 Thread Klaus Johannes Rusch
David Nesting wrote: So the real question is: How can site authors instruct a web browser-feed reader hybrid when it should treat an application/atom+xml document as a web page (via xml-stylesheet) and when it should treat it as a consumable feed? Perhaps it is reasonable for these types

Re: IE7 Feed Rendering Issue

2006-03-09 Thread M. David Peterson
Lets try that again, to everyone this time: I think we are both on the same page. I'm glad to see that. I was suddenly beginning to feel like I had missed something somewhere as it seemed that a lot of folks were making comments that seemes off target from there normal perspective. Regarding

Re: IE7 Feed Rendering Issue

2006-03-09 Thread David Nesting
On 3/9/06, Klaus Johannes Rusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless the context is stored with the feed, the user experience willbe different when a user follows a link from another page (rendered asWeb page) and later loads the same link again from the bookmarks (rendered as an XML feed).If this is

Re: IE7 Feed Rendering Issue

2006-03-09 Thread M. David Peterson
FYI just added a Browser-based Atom RSS section to UnderstandingAtom.com (which UnderstandingRSS.com points to as well) Trac instance. Please, by all means, if you have understanding in paricular area of this side of the web feed processing world, add this to an existing section, or something

RE: IE7 Feed Rendering Issue

2006-03-09 Thread Sean Lyndersay
, March 09, 2006 7:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: atom-syntax@imc.org Subject: Re: IE7 Feed Rendering Issue On 3/9/06, Klaus Johannes Rusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless the context is stored with the feed, the user experience will be different when a user follows a link from another page

Re: IE7 Feed Rendering Issue

2006-03-09 Thread M. David Peterson
PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of David Nesting Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 7:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: atom-syntax@imc.org Subject: Re: IE7 Feed Rendering Issue On 3/9/06, Klaus Johannes Rusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless the context is stored with the feed, the user experience

Re: IE7 Feed Rendering Issue

2006-03-09 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Sean Lyndersay [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-09 17:05]: To build on this idea, there is real value on a consistent view of feeds for the user, helping the user understand what they are looking at, and the context in which they can use the data. In fact, that's part of the promise of RSS -

Re: IE7 Feed Rendering Issue

2006-03-09 Thread A. Pagaltzis
Hi David, * M. David Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-09 10:00]: On 3/8/06, A. Pagaltzis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * James Yenne [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-08 20:30]: I would call IE7 dropping xml-stylesheet directives a data lose issue. Neither desktop nor online aggregators (such as

Re: IE7 Feed Rendering Issue

2006-03-09 Thread James M Snell
+1, As an alternative, Feed Readers can provide publishers with a way of specifying optionally applied styling for feeds and entries.. e.g., feed ... link rel=stylesheet type=... href=... / ... entry ... link rel=stylesheet type=... href=... / ... /entry /feed - James A.

Re: IE7 Feed Rendering Issue

2006-03-09 Thread M. David Peterson
Hey Aristotle, Thanks for the reply! On 3/9/06, A. Pagaltzis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, one of them (NetNewsWire) is a desktop application. Like alldesktop aggregators, it throws away any styling information associated with the feed via XML means. Many of them will evenfilter away (some of) the

Re: IE7 Feed Rendering Issue

2006-03-09 Thread Antone Roundy
On Mar 9, 2006, at 12:07 PM, James M Snell wrote: As an alternative, Feed Readers can provide publishers with a way of specifying optionally applied styling for feeds and entries.. e.g., feed ... link rel=stylesheet type=... href=... / ... entry ... link rel=stylesheet type=...

RE: IE7 Feed Rendering Issue

2006-03-09 Thread James Yenne
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of A. Pagaltzis Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 11:02 AM To: atom-syntax@imc.org Subject: Re: IE7 Feed Rendering Issue Hi David, * M. David Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-09 10:00]: On 3/8/06, A. Pagaltzis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * James

Re: IE7 Feed Rendering Issue

2006-03-09 Thread M. David Peterson
* Why can't I publish my own stylesheet and use these Microsoftelements for collation, background, etc.This Microsoft stylesheet shouldbe replaceable. * I would say this is a quite valid question. Is this capability planned and has simply not been implmented at this stage? I realize the look and

Re: IE7 Feed Rendering Issue

2006-03-09 Thread 'A. Pagaltzis'
* James Yenne [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-09 20:55]: The only practice I'm advocating is that if I want my feed to be formatted in the browser as I have declared using xml-stylesheet, it should be allowed. That means your feed will have to be missing UI features that other feeds have. I hope I

Re: IE7 Feed Rendering Issue

2006-03-09 Thread 'A. Pagaltzis'
* James Yenne [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-09 21:10]: * Sean Lyndersay [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-09 17:05]: I argue that the right thing for a publisher is to serve HTML when they want control over the look and feel of the entire set of content, and to serve RSS/Atom when they want their data

Re: IE7 Feed Rendering Issue

2006-03-09 Thread M. David Peterson
background when displaying mycontent tags!-Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of 'A. Pagaltzis'Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 2:44 PMTo: atom-syntax@imc.orgSubject: Re: IE7 Feed Rendering Issue* James Yenne [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-09 20:55

Re: IE7 Feed Rendering Issue

2006-03-09 Thread Tim Bray
On Mar 9, 2006, at 7:51 AM, Sean Lyndersay wrote: I hope this helps make the reasoning behind IE’s behaviour with feeds and stylesheets a little less murky. I don't really have an opinion as to whether this is the ideal behavior. But there is no doubt whatsoever that that Sean's software

RE: IE7 Feed Rendering Issue

2006-03-09 Thread Sean Lyndersay
Subject: Re: IE7 Feed Rendering Issue * Why can't I publish my own stylesheet and use these Microsoft elements for collation, background, etc.This Microsoft stylesheet should be replaceable. * I would say this is a quite valid question. Is this capability planned and has

Re: IE7 Feed Rendering Issue

2006-03-09 Thread M. David Peterson
Of course I wish I hadn't made such a damn fool of myself in taking such a strong and -- I guess extended would be an appropriate word :) -- responsethis morning when I chose to write the Master Thesis I never quite got around to during my college years regarding the reasons they were wrong and I

Re: IE7 Feed Rendering Issue

2006-03-08 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* James Yenne [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-08 20:30]: I would call IE7 dropping xml-stylesheet directives a data lose issue. Neither desktop nor online aggregators (such as NetNewsWire and Bloglines) have ever paid attention to such directives. What is your opinion on that? Regards, -- Aristotle

Re: IE7 Feed Rendering Issue

2006-03-08 Thread David Nesting
On 3/8/06, James Yenne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My counterpoint is that this is non-standard approach because the xml-stylesheet directive isa standard XML directive, and IE7 (the reader, not the browser) is essentially saying that RSS/Atom are notfirst of all XML and should be handled in some

RE: IE7 Feed Rendering Issue

2006-03-08 Thread James Yenne
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of A. Pagaltzis Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 11:36 AM To: atom-syntax@imc.org Subject: Re: IE7 Feed Rendering Issue * James Yenne [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-08 20:30]: I would call IE7 dropping xml-stylesheet directives a data lose issue