Re: [syndication] Sneak Preview: my.info

[Aaron Swartz <aswartz@swartzfam.com>]

Daniel Docekal <ddoc@mia.cz> wrote:

> Well, as usual :) Those americans living in ASCII only world :) Just joking.
> It is, unfortunately, really important to be able to handle all those funny
> characters. Without them, our language would look really strange.

Yup, we're rather stubborn -- thinking we invented the Web and all (as Tim
Berners-Lee once said to me "invented in Switzerland by an Englishman living
in France"). But I would really like to make sure that this works.

> Yes, it would be good - maybe it could be done "automagically" - you can
> detect if there is encoding= definition inside <xml> tag and act
> accordingly. 

Well, the XML parser should be automatically getting the encoding. The only
problem is for Unicode characters which don't appear in the Latin-1 spec. I
think that all the Czech characters do, your RSS file looked fine when I
tried it. But then again, I don't read Czech, so who knows whether I was
completely mistaken. Can you report any specific problems?

>> Any thoughts on the site itself?
> 
> It seems interesting and i have to say it did inspire me in many ways. It
> would be better to present various "sources" in some "separated" way
> ("skins" would be nice feature, i guess).

Try clicking on the "Sources" link at the top -- that will sort it out by
source. Is this what you want? I plan to eventually have many front-ends or
skins as you call them. If you have a design that you'd like, feel free to
send it to me and I'll do my best to implement it. I also plan to make it
available through non-web means, that is by email, WAP and VoiceXML.

> I have to say that i am one from people who drive czech (That is, Czech
> republic, .cz, is my origin) Internet, so my primary interest was to extend
> our offerings in other dimensions and that is how i found RSS format (i made
> it immediately available) and that has made me thinking that RSS shoudl be
> good for .cz Internet in whole.

XML (like RSS) is good for the Internet as a whole. We need more XML
applications!

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