Re: site-wide metadata [was: RFC: myPublicFeeds.opml]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 02:16:34PM -0700, Mark Nottingham wrote:
> I agree that doing this is A Bad Thing; it tells people how to 
> structure their URIs (bad), it is inflexible (bad) and is discouraged 
> by the folks who are charged with keeping the Web going. Experience 
> with favicon.ico and other formats show that this approach brings a lot 
> of different folks a lot of headaches.

Again, the proposal does not dictate how to structure URIs.  (At least
I'm 99% sure that Dave agrees with me on this.)  It provides a way in
for sites that have legacy content or cannot otherwise add the
relevant <link> tag to their HTML.  Or sites that don't offer HTML *at
all*, only RSS.

Jeremy
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