Re: RSS Version 0.91 Out

[danda@xxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)]

> Why is the Image width given a range of 1-144 but the height has a
> range of 1-400?
>

These are Netcenter imposed limitations, not necessarily format
limitations.  If another site is willing to accept larger images in the
format, they can.  However, it will not work on Netcenter.  This is because
our channels must fit a very small area, or it breaks the page.  Ideally, we
would simply "chop" the image size if it is larger than these dimensions,
however that logic is not currently in place, as it requires custom RSS code
and currently our validator has very simple rules to follow (regex, max
integer, etc), but that is the recommended practice.

> Why can the channel description be up to 500 characters in length but
> the Image description can only be 100?

Hmm... that's a typo.  Element lengths are now the same everywhere they are
used, and I believe it is 500 for description.

> 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.

Yes, this could be useful.  If I'm able to work on the next version, I will
take it under advisement.

> Why not allow simple HTML in the description element? At least allow
> links.
>

I've already discussed that on this group.  However, it keeps coming up, so
there needs to be some solution.  Probably that the receiver should be smart
enough to strip out certain tags if it does not want formatting information.

> Things I like:
>
> Increase in the number of allowed items to 15

It was always 15.

> Removal of pseudo RDF

yes.  ;-)

> Addition of language
>

Oh come on... you've gotta like image height and width.  (Oh, and I threw in
optional item descriptions without even a requirement).

-dan