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2006-04-27 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* David Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-04-27 12:10]: > Aristotle's suggestion is ok, in that it saves a bit of typing > in the common case where there is only one link - but in the > case where there is more than one link, a combined count seems > pretty useless: if there are multiple comment li

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2006-04-27 Thread David Powell
Saturday, April 22, 2006, 1:53:26 AM, James M Snell wrote: > So this is what I've got: > count = element thr:count { >attribute xml:base { atomUri }?, >attribute ref { atomUri }?, >attribute updated { date-time }?, >( nonNegativeInteger ) > } I think that is ok. Aristotle's

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2006-04-22 Thread M. David Peterson
That, or "You lied to me when you told me this was a web feed!" (credit: 'href (http://plasmasturm.org/code/)) "A friend of mine in a compiler writing class produced a compiler with one error message 'you lied to me when you told me this was a program'. – Pete Fenelon On 4/21/06, James M Snell

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2006-04-21 Thread James M Snell
The feedvalidator really does need a "ValidButPositivelyIdiotic" warning. - James Eric Scheid wrote: > On 22/4/06 10:53 AM, "James M Snell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Where that gets nasty, of course, is when the href >> is relative and xml:base is being used to set the Base URI. Publishe

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2006-04-21 Thread Eric Scheid
On 22/4/06 10:53 AM, "James M Snell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where that gets nasty, of course, is when the href > is relative and xml:base is being used to set the Base URI. Publisher > would need to make sure that the href/ref combo match up properly Would this be considered a "match"?

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2006-04-21 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* James M Snell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-04-22 03:05]: > ... I'm not really happy with it but this would work. That’s roughly how I feel about it. :-) It has in fact been the theme all throughout the Thread extension development discussion… > To be absolutely honest, David's comments here [1]

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2006-04-21 Thread James M Snell
... I'm not really happy with it but this would work. To be absolutely honest, David's comments here [1] really got me thinking. It's definitely worth a read and alone was sufficient to sway me on this. I don't like it; the use of the supplemental element is ugly, but it's better than what's c

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2006-04-21 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* James M Snell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-04-13 09:05]: > Maybe, but given that WG messed up in not making the link > element formally extensible, it's not likely to be pretty. Yes. WGs mess up. It’s just life. In a perfect world, this would be different, but Atom took long enough to ship. What w

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2006-04-21 Thread Robert Sayre
> James M Snell wrote: >> Maybe, but given that WG messed up in not making the link element >> formally extensible, it's not likely to be pretty. Nice one. > > a. Status quo. Leave things the way they are in the current draft. -1. James M Snell wrote: > None of the implementors I'm aware of ar

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2006-04-21 Thread Byrne Reese
Returning from the beyond to cast a vote. > James M Snell wrote: > > a. Status quo. Leave things the way they are in the current draft +1 > > b. Drop thr:count and thr:when from the spec. -1 I have yet to hear personally an argument compelling to me to believe why these elements should be eli

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2006-04-17 Thread James Holderness
James M Snell wrote: a. Status quo. Leave things the way they are in the current draft +1 b. Drop thr:count and thr:when from the spec. +0.5 c. Create a new replies extension element -1 d. Create a supplemental extension element +0

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2006-04-13 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* David Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-04-13 11:10]: > But what would processors do with an atom:link? Atom Protocol > uses "edit", there have been calls for a "stylesheet". Links > aren't necessarily things that you'd display to users (check > HTML out for examples of that: favicon, P3P, Atom/R

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2006-04-13 Thread Eric Scheid
On 13/4/06 6:59 PM, "David Powell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But what would processors do with an atom:link? Atom Protocol uses > "edit", there have been calls for a "stylesheet". Links aren't > necessarily things that you'd display to users (check HTML out for > examples of that: favicon, P3P

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2006-04-13 Thread Kirit Sælensminde
See below... http://www.kirit.com/ > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-atom- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Powell > Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 4:49 PM > To: Thomas Broyer > Cc: Atom-Syntax > Subject: Re: Feed Thread Draf

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2006-04-13 Thread David Powell
Thursday, April 13, 2006, 8:24:48 AM, Thomas Broyer wrote: >> c. Create a new replies extension element >>> type="..." >> hreflang="..." >> title="..." >> count="..." >> when="..." /> > -0.5, it *is* a link thr

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2006-04-13 Thread James Holderness
David Powell wrote: But what would processors do with an atom:link? Atom Protocol uses "edit", there have been calls for a "stylesheet". Links aren't necessarily things that you'd display to users (check HTML out for examples of that: favicon, P3P, Atom/RSS, GRDDL) Well if you've got a decent

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2006-04-13 Thread David Powell
Thursday, April 13, 2006, 6:11:32 AM, Eric Scheid wrote: > atom:link beats thr:replies on the basis that I don't need to understand > what "replies" are to discover that there is a link from this thing to that > thing. > atom processors know what atom:link is, but it wouldn't know what to do wi

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2006-04-13 Thread Eric Scheid
On 13/4/06 8:02 AM, "David Powell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In terms of the considerations to the interoperability of running > code, thr:replies seems to beat atom:link in every way. It even > manages to be more concise (you don't need the @rel), and you wouldn't > need to put thr:count and

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2006-04-13 Thread James M Snell
A. Pagaltzis wrote: >[snip] > Maybe we can think of other ways to expose this information so > that it fits the Atom extension model? Are those attributes > really the only possible approach to this issue? > > Regards, Maybe, but given that WG messed up in not making the link element formally ext

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2006-04-12 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* James M Snell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-04-13 04:10]: > What I did claim was that there is little to no technical > justification for exactly duplicating the link element for the > sole purpose of introducing two new optional attributes... David countered that having this information is clearly

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2006-04-12 Thread James M Snell
A. Pagaltzis wrote: > * David Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-04-13 00:15]: >> This seems to be the wrong priority to me. > > Convincing arguments, IMHO; +1. > Sorry, not convinced. I never once claimed that the motivation for using link was because it "looked" better. What I did claim was

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2006-04-12 Thread M. David Peterson
Hey Folks,Great discussion going on here...  Thanks! > http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2006/04/the_power_of_the_people.html On 4/12/06, A. Pagaltzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * David Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-04-13 00:15]:> This seems to be the wrong priority to me.Convincing arguments,

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2006-04-12 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* David Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-04-13 00:15]: > This seems to be the wrong priority to me. Convincing arguments, IMHO; +1. James: As regards Robert’s vociferous comments, you have to acknowledge that while the rest of the draft was hashed out in several iterations, these `thr:count` an

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2006-04-12 Thread David Powell
Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 9:20:32 PM, James M Snell wrote: > I also added a new warning for implementors: "Implementors should note > that while the Atom Syndication Format does not forbid the inclusion of > namespaced extension attributes on the Atom link element, neither does > is explicitly al

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2006-04-11 Thread James M Snell
Works for me. I couldn't think of a better way to describe the concern than what Mark included in his draft so I simply copied it verbatim. Mark N: I hope you don't mind. :-) - James James Holderness wrote: > > James M Snell wrote: >>> Not a proofreading issue, but shouldn't section 5 say som

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2006-04-11 Thread James Holderness
James M Snell wrote: Not a proofreading issue, but shouldn't section 5 say something about DOS attacks using replies links to third party servers? I wouldn't be surprised if some clients automatically subscribed to all replies links in a feed even if they were 100MB zip files on a completely dif

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2006-04-11 Thread James M Snell
James Holderness wrote: >[snip] > Section 4, paragraph 1: > "into a separate feed document" (singular document) > "its value is assumed" (no apostrophe) > > Section 4, last paragraph: > "neither does it explicitly allow" (is -> it) > > Section 6: > "Security considerations: (see section 5)" (6

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2006-04-11 Thread James Holderness
James M Snell wrote: The Feed Thread draft has been updated. http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-snell-atompub-feed-thread-07.txt I am an absolutely terrible proofreader so I'd really appreciate it if someone could do a quick scan over the current doc to find the typos that I know must b