Re: Proposal: rel="payment"

> The obvious way to do this properly, other than your namespace
> suggestion, is (in Atom at least) through a new <atom:link
> rel="payment"> element.  Much cleaner than the RSS reader just getting a
> blob of HTML IMHO.

I am now working with some folks from the Yahoo! Media RSS group to
propose exactly this.... a registered rel="payment" attribute for the
<atom:link> element.

I think this is the right direction to go.

-Josh



On 7/30/05, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> Joshua Kinberg <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > I think we came up with a great idea:
> >
> > rel="payment"
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> > Blog authors could include a link to a payment URL in their blog
> > entries using this syntax:
> >
> > <a href="http://blahblah/payme.html" rel="payment">Pay Me</a>
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> > So I wanted to throw out the idea for comments to see what you think
> > and explore how we might be able to work together to propose a
> > namespace.
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> The obvious way to do this properly, other than your namespace
> suggestion, is (in Atom at least) through a new <atom:link
> rel="payment"> element.  Much cleaner than the RSS reader just getting a
> blob of HTML IMHO.
> 
> Would I use this?  It's certainly an interesting idea.  My commercial
> feeds [1] give information about products on sale, and link to an
> information page through which you can purchase the item.  So I could
> use rel="payment" to link directly to the start of the buy-process
> rather than to the information page.  This is probably not quite what
> you had in mind (the feed is free; the described item is non-free) but
> it's certainly an interesting idea.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Peter
> 
> [1] <http://www.ticketswitch.com/cgi-bin/rss_feed.exe>
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