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“RE: The "Value" of My RSD Approach...”
From:	Seth Dillingham	In Response To:	2618 Re: The "Value" of My RSD Approach...
Date Posted:	Wednesday, November 20, 2002 2:54:01 PM	Replies:	1

Enclosures:	None.

On 11/20/02, Brent Simmons said:

>Another issue -- how do we discover the discovery? Daniel mentioned
>the idea of having a link embedded in one's home page, just as we
>have a link that points to the RSS file (for RSS discovery). This
>works for me -- it means you'd point your weblog editor to the home
>page of your site, your editor would find the link to the rsd
>document, it would read the rsd document, then it would configure
>itself. That's exactly the kind of user experience one wants.

I haven't mentioned it because I completely agreed with that approach from the beginning. It seems obvious.

We also might want to have some "best practice" standard place to put the RSD document. If a site doesn't have the link tag yet (in at least some server-side weblog tools, it will require a modification to the templates), the client can still try to find the document on its own.

Seth

Discussion Thread:

RE: The "Value" of My RSD Approach... (by Daniel Berlinger at 11/21/2002)

I've folded your ideas in Seth, and have moved some elements around. This should make it possible for
- RE: The "Value" of My RSD Approach... (by Brent Simmons at 11/21/2002)
  
  The only possible nit I'm seeing with the latest XML example on Daniel's page now is that in some cases
  - RE: The "Value" of My RSD Approach... (by Seth Dillingham at 11/21/2002)
    
    On 11/21/02, Brent Simmons said: >The only possible nit I'm seeing with the latest XML example on > Daniel's
    - RE: The "Value" of My RSD Approach... (by Brent Simmons at 11/21/2002)
      
      >The same goes for all of the attributes/elements: one or the other. No need for that kind of flexibility,
      - RE: The "Value" of My RSD Approach... (by Daniel Berlinger at 11/21/2002)
        
        Allrighty, blogID is an attribute. Should all the attributes be required? Maybe blogID should be optional?
      - RE: The "Value" of My RSD Approach... (by Daniel Berlinger at 11/21/2002)
        
        Allrighty, blogID is an attribute. Should all the attributes be required? Maybe blogID should be optional?
      - RE: The "Value" of My RSD Approach... (by Daniel Berlinger at 11/21/2002)
        
        Allrighty, blogID is an attribute. Should all the attributes be required? Maybe blogID should be optional?

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