tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-441071406174557701.post1701850258520546440..comments2023-11-29T06:26:48.603-08:00Comments on Abstractioneer by John Panzer: One site-meta to rule them allJohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11529069857081314814noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-441071406174557701.post-34617384650785090382008-11-26T01:56:00.000-08:002008-11-26T01:56:00.000-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00751205142114007755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-441071406174557701.post-43343013577722071702008-11-25T19:36:00.000-08:002008-11-25T19:36:00.000-08:00Hey John,I like the democracy comparison -- well s...Hey John,<BR/><BR/>I like the democracy comparison -- well said.<BR/><BR/>WRT XML - you're not the first person to raise this, and I agree that it adds some risk. <BR/><BR/>The intent, however, is to address as many of these use cases as possible, and I often run across people for who the extra roundtrip is unacceptable (e.g., in P3P, this concern drove the whole compact policy design, which IMO is pretty broken). Since site-meta is aimed at addressing as many of these uses as possible, that's why XML was chosen.<BR/><BR/>However, if there's emerging consensus that a line-oriented format would be better, I'm all for it; the whole point here is to build momentum behind one approach, and make it successful. So, get people to make some noise!<BR/><BR/>P.S. I'm re-submitting this comment, because the first time the openid dialog ate the comment text. Grr...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-441071406174557701.post-15699270015036288592008-11-25T07:44:00.000-08:002008-11-25T07:44:00.000-08:00+1 especially since if sites are going to have a s...+1 especially since if sites are going to have a single /site-meta file for all their discovery, then as soon as one person fat-fingers invalid syntax for an entry, it will break discovery for the entire site. XML is very brittle. But with one-line-per-entry syntax, presumably the damage would be limited and more easy to ignore.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com