On 31 Aug 2005, at 6:22 pm, Roger B. wrote:
(1) If the lists are embedded as (X)HTML, then only aggregators that display markup will be able to do anything with them, and headline-only aggregators will be useless.
And damn those unthinking bloggers who embed their paragraphs as (X) HTML, because headline-only aggregators are useless for reading them.
(2) If the lists are embedded in a new extension of some sort, developers have to buy in to get even minimal functionality. Not so if the entries are list items... even a non-list-aware aggregator will be able to display *something*.
Who is advocating this?
(3) If the lists are embedded as (X)HTML, my options for re-sorting the list are somewhere between minimal and non-existent.
Fair point.
In fact, the only benefit I can see (as a user) to lists-within-entries is the ability to easily archive the state of the list. But that's probably better left to aggregator developers to implement as a feature.
Another feature is the list can be formatted properly XHTML, considerably improving legibly over a bunch of floating entries.
Graham
