On 12/5/06, James M Snell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Mark Baker wrote:
> [snip]
> Ok, but I don't see that this would necessitate a new media type.
> It's just an entry without a feed. You'd use the same code path to
> process that entry whether it were found in an entry or feed document,
> right?
>
Not necessarily. Sure, it might be the same parser code, but not
necessarily the same bit of code using the parser. Look at the way
Firefox, IE7, Bloglines, Liferea, etc all handle (or don't handle) Entry
documents versus Feed documents. The majority of applications that most
frequently handle Atom Feed Documents have no idea how to deal with Atom
Entry Documents and I would wager that most applications that understand
how to process Atom Entry Documents and Atom Feed Documents typically
don't fall into the same category as most feed readers.
Isn't that just a case of people not implementing the whole spec
though? FWIW, if that practice is widespread, then I think the group
should consider deprecating entry documents. Minting a new media type
won't help.
Or, are there applications which only process entry documents and not
feed documents?
Mark.
