Re: RSS Version 0.91 Out

[Ian Davis <id@xxxxxxxx.xxxx]

On Thursday, July 29, 1999, 12:44:10 AM, Dan wrote:

>> Why is the Image width given a range of 1-144 but the height has a
>> range of 1-400?
>>

> These are Netcenter imposed limitations, not necessarily format
> limitations.  If another site is willing to accept larger images in the
> format, they can.  However, it will not work on Netcenter.  This is because
> our channels must fit a very small area, or it breaks the page.  Ideally, we
> would simply "chop" the image size if it is larger than these dimensions,
> however that logic is not currently in place, as it requires custom RSS code
> and currently our validator has very simple rules to follow (regex, max
> integer, etc), but that is the recommended practice.

Do you check the image size every time? If I make a conforming image
today, register with Netcenter and then change the image to some
ridiculously huge one tomorrow do you throw an error?


>> Why can the channel description be up to 500 characters in length but
>> the Image description can only be 100?

> Hmm... that's a typo.  Element lengths are now the same everywhere they are
> used, and I believe it is 500 for description.

>> No formats for images are specified. Doesn't matter for web browsers
>> but if you're building an offline viewer it might be handy to know
>> what possible image formats you could expect.

> Yes, this could be useful.  If I'm able to work on the next version, I will
> take it under advisement.

>> Why not allow simple HTML in the description element? At least allow
>> links.
>>

> I've already discussed that on this group.  However, it keeps coming up, so
> there needs to be some solution.  Probably that the receiver should be smart
> enough to strip out certain tags if it does not want formatting information.

Currently my home grown script does exactlty that - if the tags are
simple enough it works fine.


>> Things I like:
>>
>> Increase in the number of allowed items to 15

> It was always 15.
I thought it was 9 previously - I remember limiting my script to only
produce 9 items for RSS.


>> Removal of pseudo RDF

> yes.  ;-)

>> Addition of language
>>

> Oh come on... you've gotta like image height and width.  (Oh, and I threw in
> optional item descriptions without even a requirement).

Yes, sorry missed those in the list - they are good additions.

> -dan






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