On 5/10/05, Eric Scheid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The need is to not confuse users. Safari under tiger now does RSS > auto-discovery, which means
... that it will be totally borked if Atom feeds with rel="alternate" autodiscovery turn out to be in a namespace other than the Atom 0.3 one. It occurred to me after I changed Mark's "Such notification could also be built directly into future versions of desktop web browsers." to "Such notification is also built directly into some desktop web browsers." that it's not a very good thing for Atom 1.0 that it is: I don't know about Safari and Opera, but thanks to ultra-liberal autodiscovery Firefox will be discovering Atom 1.0 feeds without knowing how to handle them no matter what, unless we beat the Firefox 1.1 clock by just the right amount. At least changing the @rel value will give more cautious autodiscoverers a fighting chance at not discovering Atom 1.0 until they know how to read it. During the changeover, rel="alternate feed" would still be risky, but a careful publisher could call their alternate feed only rel="feed" until they felt enough clients understood 1.0 to risk confusing legacy 0.3 clients. Phil Ringnalda
