RE: [syndication] Re: [radio-userland] First 24 hours completed

["Rael Dornfest" <rael@oreilly.com>]

Howdy,

> From: Dave Winer [mailto:dave@userland.com]

> Rael and Julian, RSS 0.92 simply mirrors practice. Often in weblog sites
> there is no link and title. So 0.92 reflects that.

That does indeed reflect practice in Weblogging.  It does not, however,
reflect usage in RSS as a whole.  Since there's no way for aggregators,
viewers, et al to a priori know which is which, this can indeed present an
interpretation and display problem.

Meerkat, reflecting this mixed bag of practices, chooses to display some
HTML it finds in the description field.  It excludes tables, images, and
broken HTML since these can interfere in various ways with display.

> Rael, sorry, it's not a
> "return to scriptingNews" format. Have a look at the spec, you'll
> see a lot
> of innovation there.

Indeed, what perhaps I should have said was:

With regard to the issue currently under examination, the title and link
fields becoming optional in 0.92 and links being embedded via HTML <a href
... />s in the description, this is rather reminiscent of how things
are/were in scriptingNews format, Dave's initial syndication format for
Weblogs.

Note: this does not in any way mean to exclude innovation in RSS 0.92 and
addresses only the discussion at hand, the optionality of title and link.

> Have a nice day. Dave

Always.

Rael