Re: [syndication] Re: LINK support in Mozilla 0.95

[Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>]

I've changed the example http://www.mnot.net/ <link> to reflect
this approach... 


On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 09:51:27AM -0700, Mark Nottingham wrote:
> 
> I think the methods you outline are certainly doable (although having
> a separate rel='...' attribute for each version of a format isn't
> really in the spirit of things). Probably the simplest way to do this
> might be to put all of the links in the document itself, as
> 
>   <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="..." title="..."/>
>   <link rel="alternate" type="application/newsml" href=..." title="..."/>
>   ...
> 
> 'alternate' is already defined, and seems like a good fit; an
> argument could also be made for a separate 'syndication'.
> 
> This would require a MIME type to be defined for each feed format.
> Not a bad thing, IMHO. This *doesn't* mean that those files would
> have to be served with that type (again, not such a bad thing, but
> difficult for some to do).
> 
> Versioning of a particular format (e.g., RSS) would either be the
> responsibility of the aggregator, or if somebody REALLY wanted to do
> it, we could normalise a MIME attribute; e.g.,
>   <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml;version=0.91"
>    href="..." title="..."/>
> and so forth.
> 
> Comments? If we can get some consensus here, we can probably get this
> supported in Mozilla relatively easily...
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 01:45:07PM -0000, Bill Kearney wrote:
> > > Even better - it supports unrecognised LINKs by appending them to 
> > the
> > > 'more' menu... see
> > >   http://www.mnot.net/
> > > (that doesn't lead to a real feed, just a test)
> > > 
> > > We should start evangelising this TODAY.
> > 
> > Should a <link> tag point directly to a feed?  What about feeds that 
> > are available in different formats?  Perhaps it might be better to 
> > have a link tag that points to a standalone page about feeds?  Then 
> > put link tags on THAT page that point to the various formats that 
> > might be available?
> > 
> > So perhaps we could suggest:
> > <LINK rel="syndication" href="http://server/page_about_all_feeds"; /> 
> > Which would in turn contain:
> > <LINK rel="rss-0.91" href="http://server/rss-0_91_formatted.xml"; /> 
> > <LINK rel="rss-0.92" href="http://server/rss-0_92_formatted.xml"; /> 
> > <LINK rel="rss-1.0" href="http://server/rss-1.0_formatted.xml"; /> 
> > 
> > One for each of the formats made available.  There's scripting news, 
> > opml, OCS, newsML, ultramode text, etc.
> > 
> > Or will clients be expected to be able to handle the format parsing? 
> > 
> > <LINK rel="rss-feed" href="http://server/rss-0_91_formatted.xml"; /> 
> > <LINK rel="rss-feed" href="http://server/rss-0_92_formatted.xml"; /> 
> > <LINK rel="rss-feed" href="http://server/rss-1.0_formatted.xml"; /> 
> > 
> > How do the clients handling LINK tags support multiple elements using 
> > the same name?
> > 
> > -Bill Kearney
> > 
> > 
> > 
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