Re: The Profile and the Feed Validator

--- In [email protected], "Dave Winer" <dave.winer@...> wrote:
> Helping with relative urls and multiple enclosures is, imho,
> constructive. Telling them that their managingEditor and webMaster
> elements need fixing when they don't and telling them to include the
> Atom 1.0 namespace (!) is not constructive, just confusing.

The Feed Validator's check for atom:link is already starting to bear
fruit. I'm hearing from blogging tool developers about what the
element is and why it's so useful. I've already helped two developers
add support for it (and would be eager to help more).

Even before the profile's adoption, atom:link was the second-most
popular namespace element in an RSS feed's channel, appearing in 15
percent of the feeds we surveyed [1]. It makes a feed completely
self-describing so that it's easier to cache, transfer over
file-sharing networks like BitTorrent and send in email. Every RSS 2.0
feed produced by FeedBurner includes one.

As for email addresses in RSS, we had discussions here about how to
deal with the fact that the specification offers no guidance on the
proper form for an address. Because every example email address in the
spec takes the form "username@tld (First Last)", we stated that it's
the RECOMMENDED format in RSS 2.0. In my opinion this is the proper
approach, because you should be able to know that if you follow the
example to the letter, it will work in aggregators.

1: http://www.rssboard.org/news/168



 
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