Re: RSS Version 0.91 Out

["Dave Winer" <dave@xxxxxxxx.xxxx]

OK, I'm going to try to answer the questions I know the answers to..

1. managingEditor vs webmaster -- the ME is the person responsible for the
content in the channel, and the webmaster is the person responsible for the
file on the server. The ME is the person to contact if there's an issue with
the content, the webmaster if there's a technical issue. They can be the
same person of course. The information required is an email address.

2. skipHours and skipDays -- work separately. Any hours you have in
skipHours are skippable all days of the week, any days that are skipped are
just plain skipped. The purpose of these is to conserve bandwidth.

3. lastBuildDate vs pubDate -- some publications are daily, for example
newspapers; or weekly, InfoWorld (although with the web they're more daily
now). The pub date is the date the issue is for. It's a date-time, as
specified in several RFCs.

http://www.informatik.uni-halle.de/www/http/HTTP1.0-ID_15.html#HEADING14

If we're not conforming to this format everywhere, we want to be, so treat
errors here as bug reports. Let's get them uniform.

lastBuildDate is the mod date for the the channel, it's the last time the
content it contains was modified.

Dave


----- Original Message -----
From: id <id@openjava.org>
To: Syndication <syndication@onelist.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 1:59 PM
Subject: Re: [syndication] RSS Version 0.91 Out


> From: id <id@openjava.org>
>
>
> On Wednesday, July 28, 1999, 9:25:20 PM, Dave wrote:
>
> > What are the ugly elements? Dave
>
> Dave, I've copied the list in on these because they're of general
> interest, not complaints directed at you.
>
> lastBuildDate - how is this different from pubDate. How are either
> supposed to be machine readable when there is not format information
> described
>
> managingEditor  - what does this mean?
>
> webMaster - what does the webmaster have to do with syndicated news?
>
> skipHours,skipDays - never quite worked out whether they were designed
> to work together or seperately, i.e. skip 1am, 2am and 3am on just the
> days specified or skip the days specified and the times specified
> every day
>
> textinput - never could see the point of this
>
>
> I have numerous other complaints:
>
> Why is the Image width given a range of 1-144 but the height has a
> range of 1-400?
>
> Why can the channel description be up to 500 characters in length but
> the Image description can only be 100?
>
> No formats for images are specified. Doesn't matter for web browsers
> but if you're building an offline viewer it might be handy to know
> what possible image formats you could expect.
>
> Why not allow simple HTML in the description element? At least allow
> links.
>
>
> Things I like:
>
> Increase in the number of allowed items to 15
>
> Removal of pseudo RDF
>
> Addition of language
>
>
>
>
> .id.
>
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