Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.
a few ramblings...
Author: Mark Nottingham Posted: 6/16/1999; 7:49:04 PM Topic: ScriptingNews 2.0b1 Comments Msg #: 7475 (In response to 7426) Prev/Next: 7474 / 7476
* SkipHours and SkipDays seem prone to misinterpretation. Perhaps either force people to specify a, or use SkipGMTHours, SkipGMTDays, to remind them that silicon valley isn't the only place on the net <0.6 wink>? * I'm new to the scene, but it seems like there's already a lot of fragmentation in the standards. Perhaps it should be 'extended rss' or the like - it's hard enough getting content providers to produce one file...
* I agree very much that some of the syntax is cumbersome. More attributes on tags! Also, the contact fields' (webmaster, etc) format is a bit vague; what's allowable as an e-mail address? Why not have the contact's name as the payload of the tag, and the actual e-mail address as an attribute?
* associating a date with each item would be very nice. HTTP-date? Unix epoch? dunno.
* There can be many formats for an item; you've done the 'free-flow text' type. Wouldn't it be nice to support this as well as the stock 'headline / link ' and a better 'headline / link / description ' format as well? Or does it?
Keep up the good work...
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