[Bug 7806] atom ID element generation for feed entries

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=7806


Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
         Resolution|NEEDSINFO                   |




--- Comment #15 from Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>  2009-10-21 06:09:25 ---
(In reply to comment #14)
> I'd be happy to add the vCard stuff back, but you asked me not to. So that's up
> to you. Should I add back the vCard-based author generation?

No.

But not that meta/name=author could be used to obtain author information.

> There's nothing we can do about the unstable IDs in certain UAs, though, as far
> as I can tell. Making it a MUST instead of a SHOULD doesn't change the fact
> that certain UAs won't be able to do it.

If certain UA won't be able to do it then the spec should clarify that this is
a problem, and UAs must not generate invalid Atom feeds.

Also, there's the alternative to remove this part (generating Atom) completely.


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