Re: Autodiscovery Draft

2007-03-25 Thread Elliotte Harold
John Panzer wrote: There were strong suggestions at the time, I think, that this was part of HTML and should belong to the WHAT-WG. So is there a WHAT-WG document to look at? Yes. http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#link-type5 -- Elliotte Rusty Harold [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Autodiscovery Draft

2007-03-20 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:00:34 +0100, John Panzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There were strong suggestions at the time, I think, that this was part of HTML and should belong to the WHAT-WG. So is there a WHAT-WG document to look at? http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#linkTypes

Autodiscovery Draft

2007-03-19 Thread James M Snell
I'm assuming that since there was no additional expressed interest in moving forward with the Atom autodiscovery draft that it's not going to go anywhere. My current intention is to go ahead and let it expire again without any further modifications. - James

Re: Autodiscovery Draft

2007-03-19 Thread James M Snell
The autodisco draft originally authored by Mark Pilgrim and resurrected by me late last year. http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-snell-atompub-autodiscovery-00.txt - James Jan Algermissen wrote: James, what draft do you refer to? Thanks, Jan On 19.03.2007, at 20:50, James M

Re: Autodiscovery Draft

2007-03-19 Thread Jan Algermissen
James, what draft do you refer to? Thanks, Jan On 19.03.2007, at 20:50, James M Snell wrote: I'm assuming that since there was no additional expressed interest in moving forward with the Atom autodiscovery draft that it's not going to go anywhere. My current intention is to go ahead

Re: Autodiscovery Draft

2007-03-19 Thread John Panzer
://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-snell-atompub-autodiscovery-00.txt - James Jan Algermissen wrote: James, what draft do you refer to? Thanks, Jan On 19.03.2007, at 20:50, James M Snell wrote: I'm assuming that since there was no additional expressed interest in moving forward with the Atom

Re: Autodiscovery Draft

2007-03-19 Thread James M Snell
John Panzer wrote: [snip] Also, is there a standard way to discover the collection associated with a feed? (Given that, if there is an IETF or WHAT-WG way to discover feeds, there's an obvious way to discover collections... but I'm not clear on what that would be. I do think that

Re: Autodiscovery Draft

2007-03-19 Thread Eric Scheid
On 20/3/07 9:00 AM, John Panzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, is there a standard way to discover the collection associated with a feed? (Given that, if there is an IETF or WHAT-WG way to discover feeds, there's an obvious way to discover collections... but I'm not clear on what that would

Re: Autodiscovery IPR and Process Concerns

2006-11-30 Thread Robert Sayre
On 11/30/06, A. Pagaltzis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What rhetorical device is it to point out the rhetorical devices used by other participants in a discussion? Gosh, Aristotle. I'm sure I don't know. Y'all let me know when y'all figure it out. - Bobby

Re: [rss-public] Autodiscovery IPR and Process Concerns

2006-11-30 Thread Julian Reschke
James M Snell schrieb: ... Now, to the WG as a whole: I really don't have any agenda for the autodiscovery stuff other than to help foster it along. If y'all think there is a need for a I-D defining autodiscovery for Atom and APP, I've got a few spare cycles to help with the editing. If y'all

Re: [rss-public] Autodiscovery IPR and Process Concerns

2006-11-30 Thread Lachlan Hunt
. The details are still being worked out, but the plan is to indicate the maturity level on a per-section basis. Sections like the Link Types, which is relatively simple, isn't going to take long to become interoperably implemented. In fact, Mozilla is already implementing the new autodiscovery features

Re: [rss-public] Autodiscovery IPR and Process Concerns

2006-11-30 Thread Robert Sayre
On 11/30/06, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The point to all this is that you shouldn't place too much weight on the status of the specification as a whole. You need to consider the stability and maturity level of each section individually. Thus, while proceeding with Autodiscovery

Re: [rss-public] Autodiscovery IPR and Process Concerns

2006-11-30 Thread James M Snell
The AD was kind enough to point out that this statement is likely a bit too vague. The intended meaning was that I have no involvement in, or awareness of, IPR that is in any way relevant to the atom work. And, as far as I am aware, there's nothing I am required to disclose. - James James M

Re: [rss-public] Autodiscovery IPR and Process Concerns

2006-11-29 Thread James M Snell
an orange button appear. [snip] Good grief. What I said was that my volunteering to take over the editing of the autodiscovery draft had nothing to do with my day job; that is, no one at IBM asked me to work on autodiscovery nor am I aware of anything at IBM that is dependent on its completion

Re: [rss-public] Autodiscovery IPR and Process Concerns

2006-11-29 Thread Robert Sayre
originally suggested that the draft be resubmitted as a WG draft. The Area Director and the WG chairs suggested that since autodiscovery was not covered under the original charter it would be better to pursue it as an individual submission. I decided to do so only on the condition that the same open

Re: Autodiscovery IPR and Process Concerns

2006-11-29 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Robert Sayre [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-11-30 08:10]: On 11/30/06, James M Snell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If y'all think Ah, this is what's called innappropriately folksy. It's a common rhetorical device used when the speaker wants to appear that they're on the side of the common man or

Re: [Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-snell-atompub-autodiscovery-00.txt]

2006-11-28 Thread Rogers Cadenhead
I'm the chairman of the RSS Advisory Board, which has published our first autodiscovery specification [1]. I'd like to participate in the drafting of Atom's effort in this area with the goal of making it possible for publishers to support autodiscovery in the same manner regardless of syndication

Restrict Rel and Type Values For Autodiscovery

2006-11-28 Thread James M Snell
http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/PaceRestrictRelValuesForAutodiscovery http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/PaceRestrictTypeValuesForAutodiscovery While I definitely understand the rationale behind this, it's unlikely that the spec will actually lead to any change in behavior for the various

Autodiscovery Draft Issues

2006-11-28 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Hi, This feedback is related to the autodiscovery draft. Before reading on, I suggest anyone writing a specification of any kind actually learn a little about how to write good conformance criteria. http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1140242962count=1 I do not believe it is at all useful

[Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-snell-atompub-autodiscovery-00.txt]

2006-11-27 Thread James M Snell
All: With Phil Rignalda's permission, I have taken over the role of editor for the Autodiscovery draft and at Lisa and Paul's suggestion I have resubmitted the draft as an **individual** submission (as opposed to a Working Group Draft). Phil has requested that his name be removed from the draft

RE: [Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-snell-atompub-autodiscovery-00.txt]

2006-11-27 Thread Tse Shing Chi \(Franklin/Whale\)
: [Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-snell-atompub-autodiscovery-00.txt] All: With Phil Rignalda's permission, I have taken over the role of editor for the Autodiscovery draft and at Lisa and Paul's suggestion I have resubmitted the draft as an **individual** submission (as opposed to a Working Group Draft

Re: [Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-snell-atompub-autodiscovery-00.txt]

2006-11-27 Thread James M Snell
Because I resubmitted the draft with no changes from its previous version. I intend to update references with the next iteration of the draft. - James Tse Shing Chi (Franklin/Whale) wrote: Why is one of the normative references in draft draft-ietf-atompub-format-11 instead of RFC4287?

Re: [Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-snell-atompub-autodiscovery-00.txt]

2006-11-27 Thread Robert Sayre
James M Snell wrote: The process for moving forward on this spec will be the same as with Atom and APP. No, it won't. It's not a WG document. Does the draft diverge from existing browser behavior? Do browsers implement aspects of the document differently? What problems have you seen that

Re: [Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-snell-atompub-autodiscovery-00.txt]

2006-11-27 Thread James M Snell
Robert Sayre wrote: James M Snell wrote: The process for moving forward on this spec will be the same as with Atom and APP. No, it won't. It's not a WG document. Ok, to be absolutely pedantic about it: the process will be as close as possible to that used for Atom/APP with the obvious

Re: [Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-snell-atompub-autodiscovery-00.txt]

2006-11-27 Thread Robert Sayre
James M Snell wrote: Consensus calls will be posted periodically; That's not a process I can live with. Maybe this draft would be a better fit for the WHAT-WG or the W3C. Does the draft diverge from existing browser behavior? Do browsers implement aspects of the document differently?

Re: autodiscovery draft vs namespaces

2006-11-26 Thread James M Snell
changes. - James Kornel Lesinski wrote: I've noticed that draft-ietf-atompub-autodiscovery-01.txt doesn't mention XML namespaces and tag prefixes. XHTML can get even more complex than memo suggests: foo:link xmlns:foo=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml; rel=alternate type=application/atom+xml href

Re: finishing autodiscovery, like now

2006-01-25 Thread John Panzer
To clarify my +1 to Ship it: At AOL, we are using Atom internally as a data exchange format (and just converted to 1.0 syntax). We are using an early version of the introspection document as well, but only for limited internal use as it's nonstandard and likely to change. When the dust

Re: finishing autodiscovery, like now

2006-01-24 Thread Tim Bray
-ietf-atompub-autodiscovery-01.html and be done? +1. Ship it. -Tim -- Robert Sayre I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

RE: finishing autodiscovery, like now

2006-01-24 Thread Sean Lyndersay
: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 10:09 AM To: Robert Sayre Cc: Atom Syntax; Phil Ringnalda; Mark Pilgrim Subject: Re: finishing autodiscovery, like now On Jan 19, 2006, at 9:05 AM, Robert Sayre wrote: PaceAnchorSupport and PaceDifferentRelValue don't seem very useful, and they weren't proposed

RE: finishing autodiscovery, like now

2006-01-24 Thread John Panzer
+1 to ship it. -- John Panzer Sr. Technical Manager http://journals.aol.com/panzerjohn/abstractioneer

finishing autodiscovery, like now

2006-01-19 Thread Robert Sayre
PaceAnchorSupport and PaceDifferentRelValue don't seem very useful, and they weren't proposed by implementors. The spec is extremely well-written and reflects existing behavior. Can we please un-expire this: http://philringnalda.com/rfc/draft-ietf-atompub-autodiscovery-01.html and be done

Re: finishing autodiscovery, like now

2006-01-19 Thread A. Pagaltzis
autodiscovery syntax is not going to become well supported any quicker. Can we please un-expire this: http://philringnalda.com/rfc/draft-ietf-atompub-autodiscovery-01.html and be done? +1 Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: finishing autodiscovery, like now

2006-01-19 Thread Eric Scheid
behavior. The existing behaviour is based on the various incarnations of RSS where the only document type involved are feeds. RFC 4287 introduces a new document type, the Atom Entry Document, which autodiscovery-01 fails to take into consideration. That doesn't meet my definition of well-written. e.

Re: finishing autodiscovery, like now

2006-01-19 Thread Anne van Kesteren
Quoting Eric Scheid [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 20/1/06 5:13 AM, A. Pagaltzis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But we already have a name for doing that: it¹s called ³linking to something.² Now, it¹d be useful to encourage people to add `type` attributes to their `a` links, so tools could find them just by

Re: finishing autodiscovery, like now

2006-01-19 Thread Robert Sayre
On 1/19/06, Eric Scheid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The existing behaviour is based on the various incarnations of RSS where the only document type involved are feeds. RFC 4287 introduces a new document type, the Atom Entry Document, which autodiscovery-01 fails to take into consideration

Re: finishing autodiscovery, like now

2006-01-19 Thread James M Snell
of the media type definition, not with the autodiscovery draft. We have the same problem differentiating atom:link type=application/atom+xml href=... /. This isn't a problem that the autodiscovery draft needs to solve. If it's a problem, solve it in the Atom format spec where the media type

Re: finishing autodiscovery, like now

2006-01-19 Thread A. Pagaltzis
, it’s not *necessary*. We’re trying to shoehorn this functionality in with autodiscovery right now because as of yet, the right things do not happen, even though they *could*, whereas something closer to the right things does happen when autodiscovery links are added willy-nilly. The existing

Re: finishing autodiscovery, like now

2006-01-19 Thread Joe Gregorio
On 1/19/06, Eric Scheid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The existing behaviour is based on the various incarnations of RSS where the only document type involved are feeds. RFC 4287 introduces a new document type, the Atom Entry Document, which autodiscovery-01 fails to take into consideration

Re: finishing autodiscovery, like now

2006-01-19 Thread Phil Ringnalda
On 1/19/06, A. Pagaltzis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The existing behaviour is based on the various incarnations of RSS where the only document type involved are feeds. RFC 4287 introduces a new document type, the Atom Entry Document, which autodiscovery-01 fails to take into consideration

Re: finishing autodiscovery, like now

2006-01-19 Thread Robert Sayre
On 1/19/06, Phil Ringnalda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, if we spec only things which include feed in the rel value as being appropriate for aggregators, and all others as not, we still would need to wait three or four years for existing use of alternate alone to die down before any

Re: finishing autodiscovery, like now

2006-01-19 Thread James M Snell
on the various incarnations of RSS where the only document type involved are feeds. RFC 4287 introduces a new document type, the Atom Entry Document, which autodiscovery-01 fails to take into consideration. That doesn't meet my definition of well-written. I don't know how that is relevant. I am trying to think

Re: finishing autodiscovery, like now

2006-01-19 Thread Eric Scheid
provide an example? I'm not talking about autodiscovery of entry documents. I'm talking about autodiscovery of feeds, which (and this is the point) is *different* from autodiscovery of resources with the mime type of application/atom+xml. Apart from Atom Entry Documents, there are also application

Re: finishing autodiscovery, like now

2006-01-19 Thread Eric Scheid
limitation of the media type definition, not with the autodiscovery draft. We have the same problem differentiating atom:link type=application/atom+xml href=... /. This isn't a problem that the autodiscovery draft needs to solve. If it's a problem, solve it in the Atom format spec where the media

Re: finishing autodiscovery, like now

2006-01-19 Thread Joe Gregorio
On 1/19/06, James M Snell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why wouldn't this work? rel=alternate feed rel=alternate entry rel=alternate replies (see [1]) Because rel is a space separated list of link types: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/links.html#adef-rel I.e. the values are all

Re: finishing autodiscovery, like now

2006-01-19 Thread Robert Sayre
On 1/19/06, Eric Scheid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PaceDifferentRelValue addresses this. It suggests using feed as an @rel value to indicate the referenced resource is a feed (ie. is not an entry doc) which can be subscribed to. The spec already does this without a new rel value. It doesn't

Re: finishing autodiscovery, like now

2006-01-19 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Phil Ringnalda [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-01-19 22:30]: I am trying to think of a scenario where I'd want to autodiscover an entry document (as opposed to simply linking to it) and the inability to distinguish between feed and entry documents is causing a problem, but I can't come up with

Re: finishing autodiscovery, like now

2006-01-19 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Eric Scheid [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-01-19 23:10]: PaceDifferentRelValue addresses this. It suggests using feed as an @rel value to indicate the referenced resource is a feed (ie. is not an entry doc) which can be subscribed to. It doesn't rule out continuing to use alternate for those cases

Re: finishing autodiscovery, like now

2006-01-19 Thread James M Snell
A. Pagaltzis wrote: (Hm, what happened to James Snell’s profile extension?) In progress. I decided to hold off in favor of a few other higher priority items. Expect a draft on this either later this month or next. - James

Re: finishing autodiscovery, like now

2006-01-19 Thread Eric Scheid
On 20/1/06 8:08 AM, Joe Gregorio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The purpose of Atom autodiscovery is for clients who know the URI of a web page to find the location of that page's associated Atom feed. Not an entry but a feed. The autodiscovery is unambiguous on what such a link points

Re: finishing autodiscovery, like now

2006-01-19 Thread Eric Scheid
On 20/1/06 10:10 AM, A. Pagaltzis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, so you have two alternates: one with comments, one without. That would be `rel=alternate` in both cases, with `title=Entry` in one of them and `title=Entry with comments` in the other. This is semantically weak, I know.

Re: finishing autodiscovery, like now

2006-01-19 Thread Eric Scheid
, and this is what is driving my interest in disambiguating feed autodiscovery. e.

Re: finishing autodiscovery, like now

2006-01-19 Thread Eric Scheid
On 20/1/06 8:52 AM, Joe Gregorio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why wouldn't this work? rel=alternate feed rel=alternate entry rel=alternate replies (see [1]) Because rel is a space separated list of link types: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/links.html#adef-rel I.e. the values

Re: finishing autodiscovery, like now

2006-01-19 Thread Phil Ringnalda
On 1/19/06, Joe Gregorio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because rel is a space separated list of link types: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/links.html#adef-rel https://mail.google.com/mail/ I.e. the values are all orthogonal. Though at this point in this discussion, someone is always

Re: finishing autodiscovery, like now

2006-01-19 Thread Eric Scheid
On 20/1/06 8:31 AM, Robert Sayre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First person to need the feature has to spec alternate entry instead of making everyone change to alternate feed. How is speccing alternate entry helpful? That would *still* be considered an autodiscovery link to a feed, according

Re: finishing autodiscovery, like now

2006-01-19 Thread Robert Sayre
On 1/19/06, Eric Scheid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That would *still* be considered an autodiscovery link to a feed, according the current autodiscovery spec. That's the problem right there. It's not a problem. It works now, and no one is going to run out and change the running code. If someone

Re: finishing autodiscovery, like now

2006-01-19 Thread James M Snell
Eric Scheid wrote: Yes, but that would mean that it *would* work, not that it *wouldn't*. Being orthogonal means that those three links are equivalent to these six links rel=alternate href=1 rel=alternate href=2 rel=alternate href=3 rel=feed href=1 rel=entry href=2 rel=replies

Re: finishing autodiscovery, like now

2006-01-19 Thread Joe Gregorio
On 1/19/06, Eric Scheid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20/1/06 8:08 AM, Joe Gregorio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The purpose of Atom autodiscovery is for clients who know the URI of a web page to find the location of that page's associated Atom feed. Not an entry but a feed

Re: finishing autodiscovery, like now

2006-01-19 Thread Joe Gregorio
meaning to the presence (though not, exactly, the content) of a title attribute. Marvelous. Are you suggesting we promulgate that behaviour in the face of autodiscovery for RSS that already uses alternate? -joe -- Joe Gregoriohttp://bitworking.org

Re: finishing autodiscovery, like now

2006-01-19 Thread Eric Scheid
of autodiscovery for RSS that already uses alternate? Speaking for myself, quite the opposite. Robert Sayre is the only one so far suggesting that @rel=alternate entry should be treated as excluding the semantic of @rel=alternate. Which is surprising: I would have bet he would consider the alternate

Re: finishing autodiscovery, like now

2006-01-19 Thread John Panzer
Joe Gregorio wrote on 1/19/2006, 5:29 PM: On 1/19/06, Eric Scheid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20/1/06 8:08 AM, Joe Gregorio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The purpose of Atom autodiscovery is for clients who know the URI of a web page to find the location of that page's

Re: finishing autodiscovery, like now

2006-01-19 Thread Joe Gregorio
On 1/19/06, John Panzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What autodiscovery links should I do on a web page that displays a single blog entry, like this one? http://journals.aol.com/panzerjohn/abstractioneer/entries/1238 Actually on my blog each page has a feed associated with it that is a feed

invention (was: finishing autodiscovery, like now)

2006-01-19 Thread Robert Sayre
On 1/19/06, John Panzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not unreasonable to link to the overall feed for the entire blog from this page, but it's a bit unreasonable to say that the feed is an 'alternate' for the current page -- it's a superset of the current page, at best. It's also not

Re: finishing autodiscovery, like now

2006-01-19 Thread Eric Scheid
On 20/1/06 1:55 PM, Joe Gregorio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What autodiscovery links should I do on a web page that displays a single blog entry, like this one? http://journals.aol.com/panzerjohn/abstractioneer/entries/1238 Actually on my blog each page has a feed associated

RE: Autodiscovery

2005-05-16 Thread Anil Dash
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-atom- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Marks Subject: Re: Autodiscovery On May 6, 2005, at 12:21 PM, Bob Wyman wrote: Sjoerd Visscher wrote: [HTML 4.01 says:] This attribute describes the relationship from

Re: Autodiscovery paces

2005-05-10 Thread Mark Pilgrim
On 5/9/05, Nikolas Coukouma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/PaceAnchorSupport Autodicovery elements MAY appear in either the head or the body of the document. I believe this is incorrect. IIRC, link elements may only appear in the head, and a elements may only

Re: Autodiscovery paces

2005-05-10 Thread Anne van Kesteren
Nikolas Coukouma wrote: http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/PaceAnchorSupport +1 with the same remark as Mark Pilgrim. http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/PaceDifferentRelValue +1 if it is extended to support alternate as well when the feed really is the alternate version of the page. That

Re: Autodiscovery paces

2005-05-10 Thread Anne van Kesteren
Robert Sayre wrote: http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/PaceDifferentRelValue +1 if it is extended to support alternate as well when the feed really is the alternate version of the page. That would be a requirement for page authors. Feed readers don't have to check that and can fetch every feed

Re: Autodiscovery paces

2005-05-10 Thread Graham
On 10 May 2005, at 3:38 am, Nikolas Coukouma wrote: http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/PaceAnchorSupport -1 I also don't want to implement it. http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/PaceDifferentRelValue -1 I mainly don't see the point of changing it. Also, while alternate expressly says the

Re: Autodiscovery paces

2005-05-10 Thread Eric Scheid
be... a href=...example of a broken feed/a a href=...archives for June 2002/a a href=...Tom's feed, very interesting/a Without @rel=feed, a browser with autodiscovery support might well suggest those links as being worthy of subscription. (The third case iffy -- I rule it not @rel=feed

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-atompub-autodiscovery-01.txt

2005-05-10 Thread Phil Ringnalda
On 5/10/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A URL for this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-atompub-autodiscovery-01.txt And a more pleasant one is: http://philringnalda.com/rfc/draft-ietf-atompub-autodiscovery-01.html or for your two words

Re: Autodiscovery paces

2005-05-10 Thread Thomas Broyer
on would be... a href=...example of a broken feed/a a href=...archives for June 2002/a a href=...Tom's feed, very interesting/a Without @rel=feed, a browser with autodiscovery support might well suggest those links as being worthy of subscription. (The third case iffy -- I rule it not @rel

Re: Autodiscovery paces

2005-05-10 Thread Robert Sayre
There's no reason for any of the ideas in this thread to be in the same draft as the concepts outlined in autodiscovery-01. Stamp Out Creativity Now. I'm strongly opposed to letting this draft turn into a vast metropolis of bikesheds, where we have 60-message threads on the right way to use HTML

Re: Autodiscovery paces

2005-05-10 Thread Eric Scheid
on the value of @type to accurately guess whether @href points to a feed or some other document. In the history of feed autodiscovery, the exact syntax was corrected within days of being first announced. Since then it's become popular, even without official documentation in a specification. During

Re: Autodiscovery paces

2005-05-10 Thread Eric Scheid
indicate a relationship, that being this is the feed in which an entry representing this page (or portion thereof) was once found, and may again be found. I, like some, feel uncomfortable with those usage of autodiscovery links to point to just any feed, from any page. Links to feed resource

Re: Autodiscovery paces

2005-05-10 Thread Eric Scheid
On 11/5/05 1:18 AM, Mark Pilgrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/PaceDifferentRelValue +0. Part of my newfound personal definition of a life well-lived is to never again argue about semantics, markup, or the correct way to use them. This Pace will break

Re: Autodiscovery - different cases should use different rel

2005-05-06 Thread Eric Scheid
every feed is not my concern either. They can bear to check the feed and see what the root element is. this won't work ... see below. This also makes rel=alternate seem like an even worse choice for *feed* autodiscovery because it would make sense to link to an atom *entry* as rel=alternate from

Re: Autodiscovery

2005-05-06 Thread Sjoerd Visscher
. They have different purposes. It is imho perfectly reasonable to limit autodiscovery to links only. It is also perfectly reasonable to link to feeds with a, and expect that the UA will recognize it as a feed rather than a generic XML document. Like I wrote before, this is not how HTML 4.01 (or XHTML

Re: Autodiscovery - different cases should use different rel

2005-05-06 Thread fantasai
Nikolas 'Atrus' Coukouma wrote: fantasai wrote: Actually, I think start is the best fit. The main feed is often not a table of contents to the entire weblog, but something partial. It is, however, the starting point of the collection. Actually, I disagree with start because of the first sentence

Re: Autodiscovery - different cases should use different rel

2005-05-06 Thread Nikolas 'Atrus' Coukouma
are marked. finding every feed is not my concern either. They can bear to check the feed and see what the root element is. this won't work ... see below. This also makes rel=alternate seem like an even worse choice for *feed* autodiscovery because it would make sense to link

Re: Autodiscovery discussion editorship

2005-05-06 Thread Mark Pilgrim
On 5/5/05, Tim Bray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The discussion in recent days has been lively but unstructured. If I were forced to make a consensus call right now, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to pick out any one spec change that I could say clearly has consensus. The one suggestion I

Re: Autodiscovery

2005-05-06 Thread Sjoerd Visscher
(#57399 [1] - filed on 2000-10-20). Can we agree that this should be supported, but currently isn't? Unless there's a compelling reason not to, I think we might as well allow autodiscovery via either element. Any implementation guide should recommend duplicating the information in the interest

RE: Autodiscovery

2005-05-06 Thread Bob Wyman
Sjoerd Visscher wrote: [HTML 4.01 says:] This attribute describes the relationship from the current document to the anchor specified by the href attribute. The value of this attribute is a space-separated list of link types. But, if you copy HTML from one document to another, or you

Re: Autodiscovery in a as well as link

2005-05-06 Thread Phil Ringnalda
(#57399 [1] - filed on 2000-10-20). Can we agree that this should be supported, but currently isn't? Unless there's a compelling reason not to, I think we might as well allow autodiscovery via either element. Any implementation guide should recommend duplicating the information in the interest

Re: Autodiscovery in a as well as link

2005-05-06 Thread Roger B.
Is there something wrong with the HTML parsers? Nikolas: Are they installed by default on most servers? If not, can those running in sandboxes install them? From the perspective of my niche, I can tell you that Coldfusion can use jTidy to make sense of random HTML, but it is (a) installed in

Re: Autodiscovery, real-world examples

2005-05-05 Thread fantasai
occurred. I'm not suggesting that the spec invalidate such well-entrenched practice, but that it allows an alternative (not requiring 'alternate') for situations in which it is not appropriate. One of the key points seems to be that autodiscovery is not meant to find all feeds linked to on a page

Re: Autodiscovery, real-world examples

2005-05-05 Thread Antone Roundy
, and the designer felt it was appropriate for autodiscovery to work on this page -- but it is not appropriate for rel=alternate to be used for those autodiscovery links. They are not alternate representations of the front page. I'm beginning to sway in the direction of this argument, but I'm not sure

Re: Autodiscovery

2005-05-05 Thread Sjoerd Visscher
Why not support hyperlinks too? So besides: link rel=alternate type=application/atom+xml title=Main Atom feed href=/xml/index.atom also: a rel=alternate type=application/atom+xml href=/xml/index.atomMain Atom feed/a Most webpages already have a hyperlink to the feed, so they'd only need to

Re: Autodiscovery

2005-05-05 Thread Nikolas 'Atrus' Coukouma
Sjoerd Visscher wrote: Why not support hyperlinks too? So besides: link rel=alternate type=application/atom+xml title=Main Atom feed href=/xml/index.atom also: a rel=alternate type=application/atom+xml href=/xml/index.atomMain Atom feed/a Most webpages already have a hyperlink to

RE: Autodiscovery, real-world examples

2005-05-05 Thread Bob Wyman
Fantasia wrote: Making it possible for pages to link to non-alternate autodiscoverable feeds without using rel=alternate -- and encouraging this practice -- would make it possible for UAs to actually /discriminate/ between alternate and non-alternate feeds. Right now they can't, because

Re: Autodiscovery

2005-05-05 Thread Sjoerd Visscher
Nikolas 'Atrus' Coukouma wrote: Sjoerd Visscher wrote: Why not support hyperlinks too? So besides: link rel=alternate type=application/atom+xml title=Main Atom feed href=/xml/index.atom also: a rel=alternate type=application/atom+xml href=/xml/index.atomMain Atom feed/a Most webpages already have

Re: Autodiscovery - different cases should use different rel

2005-05-05 Thread Nikolas 'Atrus' Coukouma
fantasai wrote: Nikolas 'Atrus' Coukouma wrote: I think you have three separate cases of autodiscovery: * the feed for *this* page - handled by this autodiscovery proposal * other feeds the author reads or recommends - usually done by linking to a separate file. Some quick searching

Re: Autodiscovery

2005-05-05 Thread Nikolas 'Atrus' Coukouma
Sjoerd Visscher wrote: Nikolas 'Atrus' Coukouma wrote: Sjoerd Visscher wrote: Why not support hyperlinks too? So besides: link rel=alternate type=application/atom+xml title=Main Atom feed href=/xml/index.atom also: a rel=alternate type=application/atom+xml href=/xml/index.atomMain

Re: Autodiscovery

2005-05-05 Thread Nikolas 'Atrus' Coukouma
Nikolas 'Atrus' Coukouma wrote: I'm on the fence about whether or not a link element should be the *required*, even when a hyperlink is present in the body. Supporting general hyperlinks starts making more sense if we have cases other than alternate (I've written elsewhere about this) because

RE: Autodiscovery, real-world examples

2005-05-05 Thread James Tauber
On Thu, 5 May 2005 16:35:21 -0400, Bob Wyman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Being able to distinguish between alternates for the current page and just other feeds that are linked to from the page would be very useful. +1 Also, in the case where there are multiple real alternates to the page, it

Re: Autodiscovery

2005-05-05 Thread Sjoerd Visscher
Supporting general hyperlinks starts making more sense if we have cases other than alternate (I've written elsewhere about this) because the amount of duplicated information is much greater. If you're only supporting feeds that serve as an alternate form of the content, then it makes sense to

Re: Autodiscovery - different cases should use different rel

2005-05-05 Thread Eric Scheid
On 6/5/05 7:22 AM, Nikolas 'Atrus' Coukouma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've basically concluded that the keys to autodiscovery of feeds, in the general sense, should not be three (rel, type, and href), but two (type and href). Type is plenty of specification that it's a feed. Claiming it's

Re: Autodiscovery - different cases should use different rel

2005-05-05 Thread fantasai
Nikolas 'Atrus' Coukouma wrote: fantasai wrote: An excellent point. Perhaps these should use rel=home :) link rel=home type=application/atom+xml href=/xml/feed.atom ... The value of rel, if present, will vary based on relation * the feed for *this* page - rel=alternate * the feed for main feed for

Re: Autodiscovery

2005-05-05 Thread fantasai
. - a is a contextual link: it indicates a relationship between the linking context and the href destination. They have different purposes. It is imho perfectly reasonable to limit autodiscovery to links only. It is also perfectly reasonable to link to feeds with a, and expect that the UA will recognize

Re: Autodiscovery - different cases should use different rel

2005-05-05 Thread Nikolas 'Atrus' Coukouma
fantasai wrote: Nikolas 'Atrus' Coukouma wrote: fantasai wrote: An excellent point. Perhaps these should use rel=home :) link rel=home type=application/atom+xml href=/xml/feed.atom ... The value of rel, if present, will vary based on relation * the feed for *this* page -

Re: Autodiscovery

2005-05-04 Thread fantasai
Phil Ringnalda wrote: Arve Bersvendsen wrote: On Tue, 03 May 2005 18:52:59 +0200, Tim Bray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://diveintomark.org/rfc/draft-ietf-atompub-autodiscovery-01.txt 1) Change the attribute value for the rel from alternate to feed, Don't forget, since you would be doing

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