widgets feedback from Robert Sayre on 2006-11-10 (public-appformats@w3.org from November 2006)

From: Robert Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 16:58:59 -0500
To: public-appformats@w3.org
Message-ID: <68fba5c50611101358k58a4ffb1qd82a6070db34bd55@mail.gmail.com>

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.

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Robert Sayre

Received on Friday, 10 November 2006 22:06:32 UTC