Re: [syndication] Putting Generator in a feed?

[Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>]

That's a good point; at first blush, this seems like a good idea for
syndic8 and similar efforts; however, there is the very real danger
(as Morbus implies) that it will create generator-specific
workarounds... this is what happened (in reverse) with HTML browsers.

A way to do this without risking this sort of situation might be to
keep a list of generators and come up with a compliance suite (since
it's all XML, this shouldn't be hard) to test them with. 



On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 09:30:59PM -0400, Morbus Iff wrote:
> >What impact would it have on the various readers if feeds started including
> >an element for generator?
> 
> At this point, AmphetaDesk ignores everything it doesn't understand. I'm
> not sure, however, I'd want to start catering (or "understanding") this.
> Too much conditional code ("if PHP-NUKE x3, then do this, if not, do that,
> if Manilla, lalalalal")...
> 
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