On 8/16/05, Jake Savin <email@hidden> wrote:
> both uses conform to the original intent of
> the (now politicized) autodiscovery proposals by Mark Pilgrim and
> others.
I'm not sure what your point is here. Perhaps you thought I was
suggesting only Atom feeds be discovered because that's all that's
mentioned in the spec? If so, that's not what I meant. My point was
that a spec-following app would've picked the Atom feed in Mark's
example. If your point is that the IETF drafts have no authority, I'll
respectfully disagree.
> I'll posit that there are probably only two acceptable solutions to
> the problem of which link to pick up with autodiscovery:
>
> * Option 1: Give the site author the control. As far as I know, most
> sites which have both feeds present a link tag for each. Certainly
> many (most?) of these sites will be authored in order to express the
> content provider's preference for one format over the other, by
> presenting either the RSS or the Atom link first. Have Safari respect
> the link order, and use the first feed that it finds.
>
> * Option 2: Give the user a preference setting: keep the decision in
> the hands of content consumers. This preference can live in Safari,
> in System Preferences, both, or wherever is appropriate. There is
> prior art for this in preferences for which application to use for
> HTTP, FTP, Mail, etc.
>
Well, none of the RSS formats have a mime type, so I'm not sure how
you're supposed to indicate a preference. They often use the
unregistered "application/rss+xml", but that doesn't disambiguate
versions of RSS. They also use "application/rdf+xml" for RSS1, but
that can point at any RDF file (like FOAF).
> support, it wouldn't be nonsensical for Apple to default to the RSS
> feed, but this a decision with political ramifications which are
> similar to the current behavior of preferring the Atom feed.
I'm not sure why you say the current behavior has politcal
ramifications. I haven't heard much about it. Switching to RSS2
wouldn't have many either, I'd guess.
Robert Sayre
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