Re: [syndication] RSS 0.91 - skips & optional stuff

[Rael Dornfest <rael@oreilly.com>]

DJ, et al,

I totally agree with Dave here -- the Weblike thing to do is to take
something useful and make it ever more so.  It would be rather restrictive
to always have to render a channel as a channel, replete with images,
textinput, etc.

Meerkat displays stories in reverse chronological order, independent of
channel.  It does, however, allow you to view all the contents of that
channel since the dawn of Meerkat time (2000-01-06) or of the category
with which Meerkat has it associated.

I believe one should display as much as is appropriate to make it useful.

Rael

On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Dave Winer wrote:

> DJ, I totally agree.
> 
> There's no requirement that an aggregator do anything at all with any part
> of RSS.
> 
> How do I know? Because there would be no way to enforce such a requirement,
> nor would it be a weblike thing to do.
> 
> My.UserLand certainly doesn't pay attention to all parts of RSS. And neither
> does My.Netscape.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "DJ Adams" <dj.adams@gmx.net>
> To: <syndication@egroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 7:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [syndication] RSS 0.91 - skips & optional stuff
> 
> 
> > > a) Optional versus mandatory items -- If an RSS supplier includes an
> > > <textInput> or <image> element, am I as an agreggator "required" to
> render
> > > those items when I render the channel?
> > >
> > > a1) On a sideways-related topic, is the "implied contract" between
> > supplier
> > > & aggregator that the aggregator will always render the supplied items
> > > grouped into a channel as they were provided? Or can I provide users
> with
> > a
> > > search capability that allows extraction of individual syndicated items
> > from
> > > a channel without rendering the whole thing?
> >
> > FWIW, I think the answers should be (a) NO and (b) NO, YES.
> >
> > Basically I can see nothing (correct me if I'm wrong) that says that RSS
> > data must be rendered [in human readable form, e.g. HTML] anyway.
> >
> > dj
> > (neither an active supplier nor aggregator)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
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