Robert Sayre wrote:
Not true. Atom *recommends* that the page content is a full standalone
web
page. It's not a requirement.
Atom also says that you should expect it not to work.
You shouldn't expect any MIME types to work, or specifically MIME types that
aren't full standalone documents?
variants of the content element are an extension point. You could put
application/xaml+xml in there, but I wouldn't expect many aggregators
to support it. It is, however, accurately labeled.
I wouldn't either, but I wouldn't expect an Atom aggregator to fail to
subscribe to such a feed, which is what happened to Thunderbird on my test
feed [1]. To be more precise, I clicked on "Manage subscriptions", "Add",
entered the url, checked the "Show the article summary" box, and then
clicked OK. It just sat there in the "RSS subscriptions" dialog saying
"Verifying the RSS feed..." and never finished. If I close the dialog, it
asks "Are you sure you wish to cancel subscribing to the current feed?".
Version 1.6a1 (20051213) on Windows XP SP2.
Regards
James
[1] http://216.93.169.119/atomtests/applicationxml/everything.atom
