Re: [syndication] Re: My take on shared feed lists

[Mark Fletcher <markf@wingedpig.com>]

Sam Ruby wrote:

> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" 
> href="http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/index.rdf";>
>
> On that page is lots of orange XML buttons.  Three of which actually are 
> related to Jeremy's site.  All three are valid RSS.  One of which 
> contains full posts, the others merely contain summaries.
>
> It would be nice if a person who knows nothing about directory or feed 
> formats could be presented with the option to chose between full format 
> and summary when they say they want to subscribe to a site.  This would 
> go something like this:
>
>  
We already do this. Many people already include multiple <link> tags 
specifying different versions of their feeds. Between that and standard 
auto-discovery techniques, we're generally able to find all the RSS 
files for a given blog.

I guess the proposal under discussion is just a different way of 
presenting that data, or for dealing with it at one level up, on a 
per-site basis, instead of a per-blog basis.


Mark
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