* Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-08-31 20:40]: > 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.
Straw man. These bloggers are embedding the content of a single entry in each single entry, not the content of a collection of entries. > >(2) If the lists are embedded in a new extension of some sort, > >developers have to buy in to get even minimal functionality. > > Who is advocating this? I don’t know about advocating, but it has been mentioned. > Another feature is the list can be formatted properly XHTML, > considerably improving legibly over a bunch of floating > entries. Straw man. The onus for the legibility of an XHTML-formatted list lies with the publisher; for the entries-as-items list, it lies with the aggregator developer. I’m sorry if you aggregator developer can’t make a bunch of floating entries very readable. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
