- From: Shelley Powers <shelley.just@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:28:03 -0500
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:45 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote: > On 14.04.2010 23:09, Sam Ruby wrote: >> >> ... >> Speaking only as a member of the Atom community: the notion of defining >> one not only seems harmless, it actually is (mildly) appealing. That >> being said, what is currently in the draft specification is actively >> harmful. It is my hope that any browser vendor strongly consider the >> input of the Atom community before implementing what is currently spec'ed. >> >>> In which case I recommend that you seek the feedback of the Atom >>> community, and fix potential bugs in the spec (such as thise described >>> in my first change proposal, but there may be more). >> >> If there is a consensus to fix these and other bugs, then I would >> support an Atom mapping remaining in the W3C HTML5 spec. >> ... > > In that case, I'd really like to see a discussion on the questions below: > > - What is the use case? News sources that don't want to publish separate > feeds? If they do already, what is the problem with that? Why would they > want to stop? > > - Who is supposed to implement this? Browsers? Feed readers? (are they > supposed to start consuming HTML5 in *addition* to the various things called > "RSS" and Atom?) > > - Why does this need to be part of HTML5? Why does this need to be a W3C > activity anyway? > > - What are potential alternatives? RDFa, Microformats (hAtom) and Microdata > come to mind. > > So yes, having a bijective mapping between a certain subset of HTML and > another subset Atom is an interesting thing to think of, but it's totally > *not* clear whether it's something that needs to be done here. > > Best regards, Julian > > These questions should be answered before we delve deeply into the minutia related to how to correctly parse an Atom feed. Shelley
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