Re: shared feed lists
Jeremy Zawodny <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.syndication.discuss |
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| Message-ID | <20031014182800.GA1494@thermal> |
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 11:14:54AM -0400, Bill Kearney wrote: > > Take comments from all interested parties and release guidelines? That's fine > idea and precisely what's being done. > > Here's the spec: > > For sites wanting to offer a list of RSS feeds, use of the HTML > <head> section <link> element should be considered. Yes. > Examples of which can resemble: > > <link rel='subscriptions' type='http://purl.org/ocs/directory/0.5/#' > href='http://example.com/list.rdf'/> > <link rel='subscriptions' type='text/opml' href='http://example.com/list.opml'/> > > Applications would be expected to understand the use of the 'rel' > attribute as an indicator of the link's purpose and the 'type' > attribute as the format being used. This to facilitate decision > making on the suitability of the document before the data is > downloaded. This to avoid burdening the requester with downloading > data in a format it doesn't understand. No argument there. > I'm open to discussion the specific text of the 'rel' attribute and > the range of 'type' formats. I'd think using a URI would be smarter > in the long run. But I'm open to using MIME types when none exists. > Of course then there's also the failure to apply for a legitimate > MIME type but that's a whole other train wreck... I have no preference on the <link> representation. As long as there's a standard and sensible way to do it, that's all we need. (I don't claim to know how to judge what's sensible in this arena.) Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <Jeremy-LaWf/[email protected]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/