Tim Bray wrote:
Maybe; but you lose some simplicity. Here's the rule: "If you post something that's not an Atom Entry, you'll get a media resource and a media link entry." Easy to understand.
Maybe in that step. But in step 2 of "posting a cat picture blog entry", you need to get a URI which returns type image/png and the bits of the actual picture. The earlier proposals would've required a linear search of collections in order to make this happen; not simple, not easy to understand. I _think_ the newer proposals fix this but I've seen postings that make me worried. Right now I'm waiting until the dust settles on Paces before going through the cat blogging exercise once again.
Thomas: Yes, early on WebDAV compatibility, or at least avoidance of gratuitous incompatibility, was a goal. Not sure if that's still the WG's consensus or not. It seems like a good idea to me but I am far from an expert. Would the ability to guarantee server availability of an application/atom+xml version help content negotiation at all? I don't know; I haven't seen the details of what the problems with conneg are.
-John
