Re: Clarify objections to JSON [was Re: Getting the group back on track]

On 10/25/2015 12:09 AM, Jason Robinson wrote:
> Hi James,
> 
> Yes, I meant the vocab. For object types, diaspora* currently supports,
> from the AS2 vocab, Image, Question, Place, Mention, Profile. Events
> support will come at some point. For actual status messages, I'm
> hesitant to say which object would be used. Note, Article and Content
> seem very similar - and in diaspora* everything is just a status
> message, whether short one liner or a 30K char markdown formatted blog
> post. I guess Note might still be the right one. Likely incoming parsing
> would squash all three as the same. I guess a comment would just be
> Content|Note|Article with an "inReplyTo" attribute.
You mentioned markdown, I remember that Amy also uses it. Does diaspora
send textual content as plain text, makrdown, html or allows specifying
syntax used in the content?


> 
> Sorry if I sounded too critical. My email was meant to come as "let's go
> with this and move forward", not "let's spend time trimming AS2 down".
> As Christopher replied already - nothing forces implementers to support
> all of the vocab :) The AS2 spec is a good piece of work and there seems
> to be clear signs of support for adopting it.
Great news!


> 
> Br,
> Jason
> 
> 
> On 22.10.2015 22:54, James M Snell wrote:
>> Hello Jason,
>>
>> Would you be able to provide some specific insight into which pieces
>> of the vocabulary aren't useful for diaspora? I assume that the
>> vocabulary is what you're primarily speaking about in terms of
>> "trimming down".
>>
>> - James
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Jason Robinson
>> <mail@jasonrobinson.me> wrote:
>> [snip]
>>> AS2 is very ... large, but imho that is not all bad. It could be trimmed
>>> down, but then again it should have the necessary structures to compose
>>> messages with. The bad thing is the larger it is, the less
>>> implementers will
>>> be able to implement all of it. I can say for example for the needs
>>> of the
>>> current features in diaspora*, only a small subset can be used - the
>>> rest of
>>> it would just have to be ignored or parsed in to more basic
>>> structures (like
>>> I think Note would be the basic "status message", which could be a
>>> catch-all
>>> when something isn't supported).
>>>
>> [snip]
>

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