Re: widgets feedback

I'm not sure how this fits, but in our version of this, we were planning 
to allow multiple icons...

<icon size="128">myIcon.png</icon>
<icon size="256">myIconBIG.png</icon>

How would that fit into an RSS solution? I'm curious because it actually 
sounds quite interesting.

Robert Sayre wrote:

>
> It's not clear why you need a new XML format for config. It seems
> rather optimistic to assume that a format almost identical to RSS/Atom
> entries will retain a text-only content model. That is how RSS2
> started out.
>
> Won't be long before you see
>
> <description>My &lt;b&gt;awesome&lt;/b&gt; new extension!</description>
>
> All of the widget platforms will have to ship a feed parser anyway.
> Use a content model identical to an Atom Entry or RSS2 Item, so we
> don't get another title/link/description format and accompanying
> semantic drift. It occurs to me that a feed of widgets might be neat.
>