James Holderness wrote:
A. Pagaltzis wrote:
And deviously, you can inline the image data inside the feed too,
by using a data: URI with one of these methods.
However, shipping blobs around inside a feed is not a bright idea
with the currently common feed use cases.
There's also the problem that Internet Explorer doesn't support data:
URIs. And I suspect (although I may be wrong) that most client-side
aggregators use IE functionality for their HTML display.
My other also-not-likely-to-be-supported suggestion if you really
wanted to bundle a blob in your message would be to include an
atom:content with a type of multipart/mixed or multipart/related.
However I see that Atom explicitly disallows that. Anyone know the
reason? Not that I have any desire to do such a thing - just curious.
If I recall, I believe this is because some people wanted to be able to
package multiple pieces of content together in a single entry, and other
people did not want to have to imply a requirement for MIME multipart
parsing as pat of the Atom format specification. So this was kicked
over to the APP to handle as a series of posts using generic non-entry
resources and links.
Me? I just want to post cat pictures.
-John
