Re: Top 10 and other lists should be entries, not feeds.

2005-08-31 Thread Dan Brickley
Peter Saint-Andre wrote: Walter Underwood wrote: --On August 30, 2005 1:49:57 AM -0400 Bob Wyman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I’m sorry, but I can’t go on without complaining. Microsoft has proposed extensions which turn RSS V2.0 feeds into lists and we’ve got folk who are proposing

Re: Top 10 and other lists should be entries, not feeds.

2005-08-31 Thread Danny Ayers
On 8/31/05, Danny Ayers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Correction: I doubt there's much difference in terms of effort needed to support either the per-entry or in-entry approaches. Capabilities of the client might make a lot of difference though = I doubt there's much difference in terms of

Re: Top 10 and other lists should be entries, not feeds.

2005-08-30 Thread Henry Story
+1 I completely agree with Bob again. Though my preference of course would be to put RDF in the content. RDF has structures for ordered lists. It probably has vocabularies for songs. It has vocabulary to specify the author of a work, etc... And with foaf you could also specify which of the

Re: Top 10 and other lists should be entries, not feeds.

2005-08-30 Thread Graham
How would this apply to the most problematic example of a list feed, the BBC news headline page: http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk//rss/newsonline_uk_edition/front_page/rss.xml Which has the top stories first (amongst other structure) and is a hell of a lot more usable in news readers that

Re: Top 10 and other lists should be entries, not feeds.

2005-08-30 Thread Henry Story
Mhh. Good point too. For some reason though, this is starting to make me think that a feed is an entry again... Henry On 30 Aug 2005, at 13:23, Graham wrote: How would this apply to the most problematic example of a list feed, the BBC news headline page:

Re: Top 10 and other lists should be entries, not feeds.

2005-08-30 Thread Mark Nottingham
Sorry, Bob I disagree. I tried to introduce a rigid concept of what a feed is much earlier, and people pushed back; as a result, Atom doesn't have a firm definition of the nature of a feed. As a result, we can't go and say what it can't be at a later date. Besides which, I think the use

Re: Top 10 and other lists should be entries, not feeds.

2005-08-30 Thread James M Snell
Mark Nottingham wrote: Sorry, Bob I disagree. I tried to introduce a rigid concept of what a feed is much earlier, and people pushed back; as a result, Atom doesn't have a firm definition of the nature of a feed. As a result, we can't go and say what it can't be at a later date.

Re: Top 10 and other lists should be entries, not feeds.

2005-08-30 Thread Graham
On 30 Aug 2005, at 9:01 pm, Mark Nottingham wrote: It sounds like you've got use cases for Atom that other use cases (e.g., lists) make difficult to work with. Banning those other use cases makes things easier for you, but I don't think it's good for Atom overall. But conceptually Bob

RE: Top 10 and other lists should be entries, not feeds.

2005-08-30 Thread Bob Wyman
Mark Nottingham wrote: Are you saying that when/if Netflix switches over to Atom, they shouldn't use it for the Queue? No. I'm saying that if Netflix switches over to Atom, what they should do is insert the Queue information, as a list, into a single entry within the feed. This

Re: Top 10 and other lists should be entries, not feeds.

2005-08-30 Thread Thomas Broyer
Bob Wyman wrote: I’m sorry, but I can’t go on without complaining. Microsoft has proposed extensions which turn RSS V2.0 feeds into lists and we’ve got folk who are proposing much the same for Atom (i.e. stateful, incremental or partitioned feeds)… I think they are wrong. Feeds aren’t

Re: Top 10 and other lists should be entries, not feeds.

2005-08-30 Thread Walter Underwood
--On August 30, 2005 1:49:57 AM -0400 Bob Wyman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I’m sorry, but I can’t go on without complaining. Microsoft has proposed extensions which turn RSS V2.0 feeds into lists and we’ve got folk who are proposing much the same for Atom (i.e. stateful, incremental or

Re: Top 10 and other lists should be entries, not feeds.

2005-08-30 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
Walter Underwood wrote: --On August 30, 2005 1:49:57 AM -0400 Bob Wyman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I’m sorry, but I can’t go on without complaining. Microsoft has proposed extensions which turn RSS V2.0 feeds into lists and we’ve got folk who are proposing much the same for Atom (i.e.

Re: Top 10 and other lists should be entries, not feeds.

2005-08-30 Thread Walter Underwood
--On August 30, 2005 3:50:45 PM -0600 Peter Saint-Andre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One could read that to mean that feeds are fundamentally unordered or that Atom doesn't say what the order means. Is not logical order, if any, determined by the datetime of the published (or updated) element?

Re: Top 10 and other lists should be entries, not feeds.

2005-08-30 Thread Walter Underwood
--On August 30, 2005 3:50:45 PM -0600 Peter Saint-Andre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Otherwise, it is not possible to go from Atom to RSS 1.0. I assume you mean from RSS 1.0 to Atom. :-) No. You can go from a Bag to List by ignoring the order. RSS 1.0 is a List, so you would need to invent an

Re: Top 10 and other lists should be entries, not feeds.

2005-08-30 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Thomas Broyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-08-30 23:40]: Henry Story also proposed atom:id to be order-related: Indeed, and together with an extension for expiring entries, the Netflix use case should be pretty well covered. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Top 10 and other lists should be entries, not feeds.

2005-08-30 Thread Henry Story
It's late here, but since I have been called... Clearly the order of the entries could not be deduced from the tags themselves. One would need to have an extra tag in there such as this position tag feed entry idtag:first-in-list/id ext:position1/position titleThe

Re: Top 10 and other lists should be entries, not feeds.

2005-08-30 Thread James M Snell
Or.. perhaps i:index1/i:index http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-snell-atompub-feed-index-01.txt - James Henry Story wrote: It's late here, but since I have been called... Clearly the order of the entries could not be deduced from the tags themselves. One would need to have an

Re: Top 10 and other lists should be entries, not feeds.

2005-08-30 Thread Eric Scheid
On 31/8/05 7:50 AM, Peter Saint-Andre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is not logical order, if any, determined by the datetime of the published (or updated) element? No. I've seen a few things online where they publish chapter 3 first, followed by chapter 8, and then go back and fill in the blanks.

Re: Top 10 and other lists should be entries, not feeds.

2005-08-30 Thread Eric Scheid
On 31/8/05 6:01 AM, Mark Nottingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It sounds like you've got use cases for Atom that other use cases (e.g., lists) make difficult to work with. Banning those other use cases makes things easier for you, but I don't think it's good for Atom overall. those other use

Top 10 and other lists should be entries, not feeds.

2005-08-29 Thread Bob Wyman
Im sorry, but I cant go on without complaining. Microsoft has proposed extensions which turn RSS V2.0 feeds into lists and weve got folk who are proposing much the same for Atom (i.e. stateful, incremental or partitioned feeds) I think they are wrong. Feeds arent lists and Lists arent