Re: [syndication] site-wide metadata [was: RFC: myPublicFeeds.opml]

["Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>]

>>Again, the proposal does not dictate how to structure URIs.  (At least I'm
99% sure that Dave agrees with me on this

It says how to structure a single URI, if you choose to have a collection of
feeds discoverable this way.

BTW, I didn't break any W3C edict by placing a myPublicFeeds.opml at the top
level of my site. In fact, TBL went out of his way to say this was my right.
And it's Yahoo's right to create a file with the same name in the same
location. Again, not something the W3C would want to get in the way of.

Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeremy Zawodny" <Jeremy@Zawodny.com>
To: <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
Cc: "Dave Winer" <dwiner@cyber.law.harvard.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 11:21 AM
Subject: Re: [syndication] site-wide metadata [was: RFC: myPublicFeeds.opml]


> On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 02:16:34PM -0700, Mark Nottingham wrote:
> > I agree that doing this is A Bad Thing; it tells people how to
> > structure their URIs (bad), it is inflexible (bad) and is discouraged
> > by the folks who are charged with keeping the Web going. Experience
> > with favicon.ico and other formats show that this approach brings a lot
> > of different folks a lot of headaches.
>
> Again, the proposal does not dictate how to structure URIs.  (At least
> I'm 99% sure that Dave agrees with me on this.)  It provides a way in
> for sites that have legacy content or cannot otherwise add the
> relevant <link> tag to their HTML.  Or sites that don't offer HTML *at
> all*, only RSS.
>
> Jeremy
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