Re: Re: enclosure status? (MRSS)

Hi Lucas, Alex,

On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 09:49:47AM +0300, Alex Kolesnichenko wrote:
> >>> Are there others?  Let's work through practical benefits of a more
> >>> generic mechanism.
> 
> >> 0. Photographs
> >> 1. Various software/firmware updates
> >> 2. PDF documents
> 
> r> I'm not asking about document types, I'm asking about applications.  
> r> Why would you distribute these via RSS enclosures?
> 
> r> Photographs, for example, could just be links with HTML item content.
> r> What purpose does it serve for the user to have them in a roped-off 
> r> area like an enclosure element?
> 
> Think of email attachments. Following your logic: anything that can be
> attached to email can also be uploaded to somewhere and links being put to
> email body. But having files attached is simply more convinient.

Yes, anything that's being done with enclosures could be done by
including a link to the content in an enclosureless feed; but isn't
the purpose served by enclosures to remove the manual download hassle
for the aggregator user?

Re. the photos. I may want to subscribe to a feed containing hires
images downloaded whilst I'm asleep so that I can view them quicker in
the morning without being slowed up by bandwidth constraints.

Or, I may want photos transferred automatically overnight to my phone
so that I can look at them on the way to work.

Or, I may want to download photos from a number of sources, transform
them, and upload them to my website, w/o manual intervention or
programmatic scraping and link dereferencing.

Or, I may want photos (spreadsheets, word processor docs, data for
processing, etc.) downloaded without my intervention as part of a
workflow (I guess this is just another view of Alex's collaboration
tool). This kind of application is the perhaps the most interesting to
me.

Cheers,

-- 
Jon Ramsey





 
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