7 messages in com.googlegroups.bloggerdevRe: ANN: Blogger GData bugfixes| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Pete Hopkins ☠ | 27 Aug 2007 06:59 | |
| loghound (John McLaughlin) | 27 Aug 2007 10:12 | |
| César | 27 Aug 2007 23:52 | |
| Pete Hopkins ☠ | 28 Aug 2007 13:11 | |
| César | 28 Aug 2007 14:48 | |
| Daniel Jalkut | 27 Sep 2007 09:00 | |
| Joe Cheng [MSFT] | 27 Sep 2007 11:44 |
| Subject: | Re: ANN: Blogger GData bugfixes |
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| From: | César (crin...@et.com.mx) |
| Date: | 08/28/2007 02:48:24 PM |
| List: | com.googlegroups.bloggerdev |
I see. RFC 4287 does mandate explicitly:
"atom:entry elements MUST contain exactly one atom:title element." (§4.1.2)
Empty titles are not explicitly forbidden. However, in §4.1.1.1 there is this note:
"It is advisable that each atom:entry element contain a non-empty atom:title element, a non-empty atom:content element when that element is present, and a non-empty atom:summary element when the entry contains no atom:content element."
Given this, and the fact that at least the Firefox client is widely deployed and absolutely needs the titles (certainly a shortcoming in the client), I really do think some kind of title should always be generated.
Personally, I think a snippet from the content is the best option, at least for comments. But if that is not palatable, how about "comment in <post's title>"? That doesn't work as good in a "live bookmark", but it does convey a piece of useful information not available anywhere else in the entry, namely the post title.
-CR
On Aug 28, 3:11 pm, "Pete Hopkins ☠" <phop...@google.com> wrote:
On 8/28/07, César <crin...@et.com.mx> wrote:
Removing the title element seems to break some feed consumers, like the "recent comments" Blogger widget and Firefox's "live bookmarks" feature. Is there a reason for this change? Is it possible/likely that the change will be rolled back?
Right now we're looking at ways to balance making the Atom feed a correct representation of the post -- for Atom Publishing Protocol clients -- and making the feed work the best in various feed readers.
I'm open to suggestions in this area.
However, a fix at least for the Blogger Feed widget to work better with feeds that don't have titles is in the works.
-- Pete