Re: Atom feed refresh rates

2005-05-05 Thread Mark Pilgrim
On 5/5/05, Andy Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: convincing the WG, I would simply point out that a mechanism widely available to, and understood by, feed providers and aggregators cannot do harm and has the potential to do a great deal of good. Not to be flippant, but we have one that's

Re: Atom feed refresh rates

2005-05-05 Thread Mark Pilgrim
On 5/5/05, Walter Underwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You need the information outside of HTTP. To quote from the RSS spec for ttl: This makes it possible for RSS sources to be managed by a file-sharing network such as Gnutella. Ignoring, for the moment, that this is a horrible idea and

Re: PaceCaching

2005-05-05 Thread Mark Pilgrim
On 5/5/05, Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: seriously expect it to be interpreted as a promise that the feed won't change for the next x minutes? No, but I do seriously expect it to be interpreted that the feed publisher does not wish clients to check it for the next x minutes. -- Cheers,

Re: Atom feed refresh rates

2005-05-05 Thread Mark Pilgrim
On 5/5/05, John Panzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I assume an HTTP Expires header for Atom content will work and play well with caches such as the Google Accelerator (http://webaccelerator.google.com/). I'd also guess that a syntax-level tag won't. Is this important? Yes, and yes. This is

Re: Autodiscovery discussion editorship

2005-05-06 Thread Mark Pilgrim
On 5/5/05, Tim Bray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The discussion in recent days has been lively but unstructured. If I were forced to make a consensus call right now, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to pick out any one spec change that I could say clearly has consensus. The one suggestion I

Re: the atom:copyright element

2005-05-08 Thread Mark Pilgrim
On 5/8/05, Bob Wyman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, let me say that I am a *very* strong supporter of intellectual property rights... I have always made my income by selling my intellectual property and I consider the anti-IPR proponents and Free Software evangelists to be no better

Re: Autodiscovery paces

2005-05-10 Thread Mark Pilgrim
On 5/9/05, Nikolas Coukouma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/PaceAnchorSupport Autodicovery elements MAY appear in either the head or the body of the document. I believe this is incorrect. IIRC, link elements may only appear in the head, and a elements may only

Re: PaceTextShouldBeProvided and accessibility - was Re: Consensus call on last raft of issues

2005-05-19 Thread Mark Pilgrim
On 5/19/05, Isofarro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd urge that the wording here should also include accessibility concerns, especially to encourage accessible alternatives to to be adopted when the content is known to be inaccessible - e.g. images, sound files, movies, flash. HTML for

Re: Review of Atom 0.8 Spec against W3C QA Specification Guidelines

2005-05-25 Thread Mark Pilgrim
On 5/24/05, Karl Dubost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Validation is something very precise. It can be validated against a DTD, or against a Schema or another grammar language, etc. At least the Feed validator could become a Feed checker which develops a heuristic to check if the requirements of

Re: Don't Aggregrate Me

2005-08-26 Thread Mark Pilgrim
On 8/25/05, Roger B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mhh. I have not looked into this. But is not every desktop aggregator a robot? Henry: Depends on who you ask. (See the Newsmonster debates from a couple years ago.) As I am the one who kicked off the Newsmonster debates a couple years ago, I

Re: Don't Aggregrate Me

2005-08-29 Thread Mark Pilgrim
On 8/26/05, Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (And before you say but my aggregator is nothing but a podcast client, and the feeds are nothing but links to enclosures, so it's obvious that the publisher wanted me to download them -- WRONG! The publisher might want that, or they might not