Re: The Atomic age

2005-07-16 Thread Dan Brickley
Henry Story wrote: Is the mixed format case really possible? Last time I looked there were problems, such as different tags using attributes with the same name but with different semantics. I thought we were close last time I looked, but not quite there. It seems feasible for a

Evangelism, etc.

2005-07-16 Thread Danny Ayers
If I could distract folks from the champagne and crudities for a moment: First - I just received a rewrite of the spec draft in nicely-styled XHTML 1.0, from someone (who wishes to remain anonymous) who refers to the IETF docs as so 1989 -

Re: FormatTests

2005-07-16 Thread Graham
On 15 Jul 2005, at 11:20 pm, Sam Ruby wrote: Can you be more specific? If I plug my new Atom 1.0 feed into the validator: http://www.feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F% 2Fwww.fondantfancies.com%2Fblog%2Fatom1%2F Last night, it said the feed wasn't valid, but today it's saying:

White-space

2005-07-16 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
Hi, http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-atompub-format-10.txt refers to white-space a couple of times but does not define this term. The exact definition is important to know for 4.1.3.3 item 6 and I would like to avoid to /assume/ that this means any number of U+0020, U+0009,

Re: HTTP Accept Headers for Atom V1.0?

2005-07-16 Thread Mark Baker
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 06:48:58AM +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote: * Bob Wyman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-07-15 21:45]: What would the HTTP Accept Headers for Atom V1.0 look like? i.e. if I want to tell the server that I want Atom V1.0 but do not want Atom 0.3? There is no official MIME type

Re: Evangelism, etc.

2005-07-16 Thread Robert Sayre
On 7/16/05, Danny Ayers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Second - I just read 3 reviews of Atom (linked from Dave Winer's blog) containing significant criticism, much of it valid. However the target of these posts wasn't Atom itself, but the 'RSS 2.0 and Atom Compared' doc (on the Wiki/Tim's

Re: FormatTests

2005-07-16 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-07-16 12:40]: Are you advocating changing permanent identifiers? Bad Sam. ID canonicalization was a bloody stupid idea. Eeep. Even though I don’t think canonicalization was a stupid idea, more careful thought was and is probably necessary about the impact it

Feed History -02

2005-07-16 Thread Mark Nottingham
The Feed History draft has been updated to -02; http://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-nottingham-atompub-feed- history-02.txt The most noticeable change in this version is the inclusion of a namespace URI, to allow implementation. I don't intend to update it for a while, so as to

Re: Evangelism, etc.

2005-07-16 Thread Walter Underwood
--On July 16, 2005 11:16:44 AM -0400 Robert Sayre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found the criticism pathetic. A little lame, at least. You can't add precision and interoperability with innovation and extension. But there is a point buried under all that. What are the changes required to support

Re: Evangelism, etc.

2005-07-16 Thread Julian Reschke
Danny Ayers wrote: If I could distract folks from the champagne and crudities for a moment: First - I just received a rewrite of the spec draft in nicely-styled XHTML 1.0, from someone (who wishes to remain anonymous) who refers to the IETF docs as so 1989 -

Re: Evangelism, etc.

2005-07-16 Thread Robert Sayre
On 7/16/05, Julian Reschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://dannyayers.com/atom/draft-ietf-atompub-format-10.xhtml ... Just run the XML version of the spec through rfc2629toXhtml.xslt (http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc2629xslt/rfc2629toXHTML.xslt). There is an HTML version of the

Re: Evangelism, etc.

2005-07-16 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Robert Sayre [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-07-16 19:50]: There is an HTML version of the spec here: http://atompub.org/. It was there when Danny sent his email, so I'm not sure what all the whinging is about. I like both versions for different reasons. Thanks, of course, for providing a HTML

Atom 1.0 xml:base/URI funnies

2005-07-16 Thread Tim Bray
I got an email last night from a well known syndication implementor pointing out an obvious bug in my Atom feed. The feed's valid, but the stuff in content was full of relative URIs which were broken because I'd borked the xml:base. So I went through the code and got the xml:base right

Re: Evangelism, etc.

2005-07-16 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* A. Pagaltzis wrote: I like both versions for different reasons. Thanks, of course, for providing a HTML rendition – I, too, have to say I find the ASCII versions very 1989. (I use rfc.net to read RFCs so there is at least a modicum of formatting and actual, you know, links.) There is

Re: Media extensions

2005-07-16 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* James M Snell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-07-16 20:05]: If the community can drive a viable solution without the overhead of a formalized standardization process, it will work out best for everyone and the anti-formal-standards crowd will have far less to complain about or will at least be able

Re: Media extensions

2005-07-16 Thread Danny Ayers
On 7/16/05, A. Pagaltzis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * James M Snell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-07-16 20:05]: If the community can drive a viable solution without the overhead of a formalized standardization process, it will work out best for everyone and the anti-formal-standards crowd will

Re: Evangelism, etc.

2005-07-16 Thread Danny Ayers
On 7/16/05, Robert Sayre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/16/05, Danny Ayers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Second - I just read 3 reviews of Atom (linked from Dave Winer's blog) I found the criticism pathetic. Well, yes, but you're more familiar with the reality than most people that are likely

Re: Media extensions

2005-07-16 Thread Robert Sayre
On 7/16/05, Danny Ayers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you even *do* a podcast in Atom? (This is kind-of what I'm trying to get at ;-) What clients support podcasts in Atom? NetNewsWire supports it. Robert Sayre

Re: Evangelism, etc.

2005-07-16 Thread Danny Ayers
On 7/16/05, Walter Underwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But there is a point buried under all that. What are the changes required to support Atom? It looks complicated, but how hard is it? Here is a shot at that information. Thanks Walter, this is good... For publishers, you need to be

Re: Atom 1.0 xml:base/URI funnies

2005-07-16 Thread Sam Ruby
Tim Bray wrote: I got an email last night from a well known syndication implementor pointing out an obvious bug in my Atom feed. The feed's valid, but the stuff in content was full of relative URIs which were broken because I'd borked the xml:base. So I went through the code and got

Re: Media extensions

2005-07-16 Thread Sam Ruby
Danny Ayers wrote: On 7/16/05, A. Pagaltzis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * James M Snell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-07-16 20:05]: If the community can drive a viable solution without the overhead of a formalized standardization process, it will work out best for everyone and the

Re: Media extensions

2005-07-16 Thread James M Snell
Sam Ruby wrote: Danny Ayers wrote: Yahoo!'s approach did seem to work very well without any formal process, effectively just a mailing list and editor. But then Apple came along... ... at which point, I would think that it should be painfully obvious to all that that which did seem to

Re: Media extensions

2005-07-16 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Robert Sayre [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-07-16 22:00]: On 7/16/05, Danny Ayers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you even *do* a podcast in Atom? (This is kind-of what I'm trying to get at ;-) What clients support podcasts in Atom? NetNewsWire supports it. So does Liferea. And while most

Re: Atom 1.0 xml:base/URI funnies

2005-07-16 Thread Tim Bray
On Jul 16, 2005, at 1:28 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: I didn't realize that path-empty was a valid URI-reference. Yeah, it means here. While it clearly shouldn't be the default behavior, longer term (i.e., sometime well after basic Atom 1.0 support is more complete), how much value do you think

Re: Atom 1.0 xml:base/URI funnies

2005-07-16 Thread Tim Bray
On Jul 16, 2005, at 11:20 AM, Tim Bray wrote: I got an email last night from a well known syndication implementor pointing out an obvious bug in my Atom feed. The feed's valid, but the stuff in content was full of relative URIs which were broken because I'd borked the xml:base. So I

Re: Media extensions

2005-07-16 Thread Robert Sayre
On 7/16/05, Sam Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question: can anybody here quantify the overhead of the IETF standardization process? While I certainly would label some of the last few weeks overhead, everything else I attribute to the impact of allowing and enabling a wider set of

Re: [rss-media] Re: Media extensions

2005-07-16 Thread Lucas Gonze
About a formal standards process, as far as I can tell the only two Bigs involved right now are Apple and Yahoo. Is there anybody else? We can assume that Y! would be pretty friendly. It's not a given that they would participate, but it's plausible. Apple, though, is a different story.

Comments link relation

2005-07-16 Thread James M Snell
FYI... I've deployed a working prototype of the comments link relation extension on my personal weblog. http://www.snellspace.com/wp/wp-atom1.php http://www.snellspace.com/wp/wp-commentsatom1.php The @rel attributes use the values: http://www.snellspace.com/atom/extensions/proposed/comments

Re: Media extensions

2005-07-16 Thread Karl Dubost
Le 16 juil. 2005, à 13:53, James M Snell a écrit : Let's see if we can avoid the IETF process for now and encourage Yahoo and Apple to get together with the community to work on some a common approach, get some implementations out there to evolve it a bit, then evaluate later whether or not

Re: [rss-media] Re: Media extensions

2005-07-16 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Lucas Gonze [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-07-17 03:40]: Apple, though, is a different story. Is there any reason to think that they would take it seriously? Mostly this: http://tantek.com/log/2005/07.html#d10t0130 I don’t know if there’s been any other motion yet. Apple, the company, apparently

Re: More while we're waiting discussion

2005-07-16 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Eric Scheid [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-07-13 17:35]: Quick poll: how many feed readers let the user read the current feed document without first requiring them to subscribe. That is, present the content, along with a button subscribe to future updates. I’ve not seen any dedicated feed readers

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-nottingham-atompub-feed-history-00.txt

2005-07-16 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Eric Scheid [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-06-30 05:20]: On 30/6/05 11:54 AM, Antone Roundy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't quite get what the hub feed would look like. Could you show us some XML? I think something like this: feed ... titlearchives hub for x/title link

Re: More while we're waiting discussion

2005-07-16 Thread James M Snell
A. Pagaltzis wrote: * Eric Scheid [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-07-13 17:35]: could we have @href and then also @idref ... then when we mean to provide a dereferenceable uri we can put it in @href, and when we want to provide an ID reference we can put it in @idref. We can even put both into a

License extension (was Re: More while we're waiting discussion)

2005-07-16 Thread James M Snell
A significant part of my brain is screaming at me that the most logical way to associate a license with an entry/feed is to use a link element. After all, we are linking the entry/feed with an external resource (the license) that is identifiable via URI. For instance, if I ommitted the