Re: [whatwg] PaceEntryMediatype

2007-11-05 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Martin Atkins wrote: > > > > Feeds for this site > > > >Status feed > >News feed > >Links feed > > > > This makes a lot more sense to me. When that orange button lights on up > on my browser's toolbar, I tend to think of it as "subscribe to this > page", not "s

Re: [whatwg] PaceEntryMediatype

2007-11-05 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Alexey Feldgendler wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>Feeds for this site > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>This page links to the three feeds for this site. > > > > status.xml is just a resource that provides a syndication feed. It is > > not necessarily associated with a p

Re: [whatwg] PaceEntryMediatype

2006-12-09 Thread Alexey Feldgendler
On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 04:01:14 +0600, Ian Hickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why is it useful for a browser to make a list of a bunch of random feeds that have no relation to one another or to the current page? Well they sort of have a relation -- they're feeds that the author thinks the user w

Re: [whatwg] PaceEntryMediatype

2006-12-08 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Martin Atkins wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: > > > > Then the browser wouldn't take these links and make them available in a > > "list of feeds" interface, which is the problem we are trying to solve. > > Why is it useful for a browser to make a list of a bunch of random feeds >

Re: [whatwg] PaceEntryMediatype

2006-12-08 Thread Martin Atkins
Ian Hickson wrote: Then the browser wouldn't take these links and make them available in a "list of feeds" interface, which is the problem we are trying to solve. Why is it useful for a browser to make a list of a bunch of random feeds that have no relation to one another or to the current

Re: [whatwg] PaceEntryMediatype

2006-12-07 Thread Alexey Feldgendler
On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 04:31:25 +0600, Ian Hickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Feeds for this site This page links to the three feeds for this site. >>> status.xml is just a resource that provides a syndication feed. It is not >>> necessarily associ

Re: [whatwg] PaceEntryMediatype

2006-12-07 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Alexey Feldgendler wrote: >>> >>> >>>Feeds for this site >>> >>> >>> >>>This page links to the three feeds for this site. >> >> status.xml is just a resource that provides a syndication feed. It is not >> necessarily associated with a particular Web page

Re: [whatwg] PaceEntryMediatype

2006-12-07 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Thomas Broyer wrote: > > My last point: if the rel="feed" as described above seems useless, then > I'm not opposed to having a rel="feed" "marker" as defined in the > current HTML5 draft, with an addition: that this "feed" marker be > "combinable" with any link rel: rel="fee

Re: [whatwg] PaceEntryMediatype

2006-12-07 Thread Martin Atkins
Alexey Feldgendler wrote: On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 22:42:06 +0600, Ian Hickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In your example, what's the relation between status.xml and this page? status.xml is just a resource that provides a syndication feed. It is not necessarily associated with a p

Re: [whatwg] PaceEntryMediatype

2006-12-07 Thread Alexey Feldgendler
On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 22:42:06 +0600, Ian Hickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I mean that the feed might contain items that were never part of the page >>> linking to the feed. For example, this page: >>> >>> >>>Feeds for this site >>> >>> >>> >>>This page links to the thr

Re: [whatwg] PaceEntryMediatype

2006-12-07 Thread Thomas Broyer
[CC'ing the WHATWG list] 2006/12/7, Jan Algermissen: Seriously: how many feed readers are out there that base the decision wheter something is subscribeable on the type attribute of a link rather then on the link type? Every one? Oh, they also look at the rel="alternate", but I'm pretty sure

Re: [whatwg] PaceEntryMediatype

2006-12-06 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Alexey Feldgendler wrote: > On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:54:04 +0600, Ian Hickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I mean that the feed might contain items that were never part of the page > > linking to the feed. For example, this page: > > > > > >Feeds for this site > >

Re: [whatwg] PaceEntryMediatype

2006-12-06 Thread Alexey Feldgendler
On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:54:04 +0600, Ian Hickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I mean that the feed might contain items that were never part of the page > linking to the feed. For example, this page: > > >Feeds for this site > > > >This page links to the three feeds for this

Re: [whatwg] PaceEntryMediatype

2006-12-06 Thread James M Snell
Actually, for the form "application/atom+xml;type=entry" it's more likely that browsers will completely ignore the type param as they do currently. - James fantasai wrote: > [snip] > That means rel="feed" won't be implied on an Atom Entry document whether > the > new MIME type syntax is chosen to

Re: [whatwg] PaceEntryMediatype

2006-12-06 Thread fantasai
Mark Baker wrote: The real problem here AIUI - at least in the context of HTML 5's inferred rel="feed" bit - is not just entry documents, it's any Atom document which wouldn't normally be considered a "feed" by a typical user; something that most people would be interested in subscribing to. An

Re: [whatwg] PaceEntryMediatype

2006-12-05 Thread fantasai
Thomas Broyer wrote: There's no need to fetch every link if you base your assumptions on the type="" attribute (and *only* the type="" attribute, not the combination with any special rel="" attribute value). How does this solution deal with, e.g. hAtom? http://microformats.org/wiki/hatom The

Re: [whatwg] PaceEntryMediatype

2006-12-04 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Thomas Broyer wrote: > > There's no need to fetch every link if you base your assumptions on the > type="" attribute (and *only* the type="" attribute, not the combination > with any special rel="" attribute value). If you don't use the type="" > attribute on s, you'll have

Re: [whatwg] PaceEntryMediatype

2006-12-04 Thread Michel Fortin
Le 3 déc. 2006 à 18:49, Ian Hickson a écrit : On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Thomas Broyer wrote: What I mean is that "being syndication feed" is not a property of a relationship, it's a property of one end of the relationship (the resource the link "starts from" or "points to"); so it has nothing to d

Re: [whatwg] PaceEntryMediatype

2006-12-04 Thread Thomas Broyer
2006/12/4, Ian Hickson: On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Thomas Broyer wrote: > > What I mean is that "being syndication feed" is not a property of a > relationship, it's a property of one end of the relationship (the > resource the link "starts from" or "points to"); so it has nothing to do > with the rel=""

Re: [whatwg] PaceEntryMediatype

2006-12-03 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Thomas Broyer wrote: > > > > Oh. If you just mean that you don't think there should be a way to say > > that a particular document is a syndication feed, then I disagree. I > > would assert that the popularity of feed readers such as Bloglines, > > Google Reader, and so forth

Re: [whatwg] PaceEntryMediatype

2006-12-03 Thread Thomas Broyer
2006/12/2, Ian Hickson: On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Thomas Broyer wrote: > > And what is a "syndication feed", if not something that's > "subscribable"? > > I mean, there is no definition of "syndication feed", neither of "feed > autodiscovery" (what's the purpose of "feed autodiscovery", if not to > sub

Re: [whatwg] PaceEntryMediatype

2006-12-02 Thread Mark Baker
On 12/2/06, Daniel E. Renfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The difference between a collection of entries and a single entry is an important one. Sure, once you get inside the Entry, everything is the same, but knowing ahead of time that you are requesting a single Entry assists in processing. But

Re: [whatwg] PaceEntryMediatype

2006-12-01 Thread Thomas Broyer
2006/12/1, Mark Baker: Urgh, sorry for my tardiness; I'm falling behind on my reading. On 11/30/06, Thomas Broyer wrote: > I'd prefer basing autodiscovery on the media types and not at all on > the relationships. All a media type tells you (non-authoritatively too) is the spec you need to inter

Re: [whatwg] PaceEntryMediatype

2006-12-01 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Thomas Broyer wrote: > 2006/12/1, Ian Hickson: > > On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Thomas Broyer wrote: > > > > > > A summary of my problem with HTML5's autodiscovery: - there > > > shouldn't be a 'rel' value for "subscribability", subscribability is > > > a matter of whether and how an U

Re: [whatwg] PaceEntryMediatype

2006-12-01 Thread Thomas Broyer
2006/12/1, Ian Hickson: On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Thomas Broyer wrote: > > A summary of my problem with HTML5's autodiscovery: > - there shouldn't be a 'rel' value for "subscribability", > subscribability is a matter of whether and how an UA can process > content from a particular media type Agreed. T

Re: [whatwg] PaceEntryMediatype

2006-12-01 Thread James M Snell
I could but after the discussions this week I'm not sure its worth it. Yes, everything can be done using different rel values; the content-type thing is more just an annoyance than anything else. I'll just make sure that I never link my Atom entry documents using "alternate" (even tho that's what

Re: [whatwg] PaceEntryMediatype

2006-12-01 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, James M Snell wrote: > > You're right that the differentiation in the content-type is of less > importance but without it there's no way for me to unambiguously > indicate that a resource has both an Atom Feed representation and an > Atom Entry representation. Assuming that

Re: [whatwg] PaceEntryMediatype

2006-12-01 Thread Ernest Prabhakar
Hi James, On Dec 1, 2006, at 11:25 AM, James M Snell wrote: You're right that the differentiation in the content-type is of less importance but without it there's no way for me to unambiguously indicate that a resource has both an Atom Feed representation and an Atom Entry representation. The b

Re: [whatwg] PaceEntryMediatype

2006-12-01 Thread James M Snell
You're right that the differentiation in the content-type is of less importance but without it there's no way for me to unambiguously indicate that a resource has both an Atom Feed representation and an Atom Entry representation. The best I could do is say "This things has two Atom representations

Re: [whatwg] PaceEntryMediatype - rel-type instead

2006-12-01 Thread Ernest Prabhakar
On Dec 1, 2006, at 10:42 AM, Kyle Marvin wrote: I see the separation but I'm still missing a clear justifiication for it. I don't see content-type as having anything to do with the "audience". It's about what media format you'd get back if you dereference the href and rel is about how you

Re: [whatwg] PaceEntryMediatype

2006-12-01 Thread James M Snell
Kyle Marvin wrote: > [snip] > I expect that if you associated a 'rel' value with links that point to > "application/atom+xml", whether it is expected to be a feed or an entry > would probably be part of the 'rel' description and thus not ambiguous > at all. I think the discussion started because

Re: [whatwg] PaceEntryMediatype

2006-12-01 Thread Robert Sayre
On 12/1/06, Kyle Marvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm still listening to the debate, but Mark's argument resonates with me. Yes, Mark is starting to convince me as well. -- Robert Sayre

Re: [whatwg] PaceEntryMediatype

2006-12-01 Thread Mark Baker
Urgh, sorry for my tardiness; I'm falling behind on my reading. On 11/30/06, Thomas Broyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd prefer basing autodiscovery on the media types and not at all on the relationships. All a media type tells you (non-authoritatively too) is the spec you need to interpret t

Re: [whatwg] PaceEntryMediatype

2006-12-01 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Thomas Broyer wrote: > > A summary of my problem with HTML5's autodiscovery: > - there shouldn't be a 'rel' value for "subscribability", > subscribability is a matter of whether and how an UA can process > content from a particular media type Agreed. The spec doesn't mention s

Re: [whatwg] PaceEntryMediatype

2006-12-01 Thread Thomas Broyer
2006/11/30, Ian Hickson: On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Thomas Broyer wrote: > > I'd prefer basing autodiscovery on the media types and not at all on the > relationships. A "feed" relationship would only help finding the "living > resource" (similar to rel="current" in the Atom Relationship Registry) > if

Re: [whatwg] PaceEntryMediatype

2006-11-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Thomas Broyer wrote: > > I'd prefer basing autodiscovery on the media types and not at all on the > relationships. A "feed" relationship would only help finding the "living > resource" (similar to rel="current" in the Atom Relationship Registry) > if you're not already "on"

Re: [whatwg] PaceEntryMediatype

2006-11-30 Thread Thomas Broyer
2006/11/30, Mark Baker: The real problem here AIUI - at least in the context of HTML 5's inferred rel="feed" bit - is not just entry documents, it's any Atom document which wouldn't normally be considered a "feed" by a typical user; something that most people would be interested in subscribing t