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A (short, I promise! :) Story,
A while back, and after listening to several recommendations, Russ (Miles) decided to host http://www.russmiles.com with SquareSpace (yes, you can host personal domains with SquareSpace. A BIG++ in my opinion.) There was a (short lived) problem however,
They were still emitting Atom 0.3 instead of Atom 1.0.
The rest of the story goes like this,
Me: [Action: (Click: (”Contact” link on the front page of SquareSpace.com))]
Me: [Action: (Type: (Paraphrase: (”Any chance you might be willing to upgrade your Atom feed from 0.3 to 1.0″)))]
Me: [Action: (Wait: (”About 10 minutes from” [Action: (Click: (Button: (Label: “Submit Inquiry”)))] “to” [Action: (Gmail: (Notification: (New Message: (From: (”Anthony Casalena, SquareSpace.com”))))]))]
Me: [Action: (Speak: (”What the… WOW! That was fast!”))]
Me: [Action: (Read: (Email: (From: (”Anthony Casalena, SquareSpace.com”) Body:((Action: (Snip))”What changes would we need need to make to move to 1.0 final, or is this a nominal change only? Where’s the most valid spec located?”))))]
You: [Action: (Speak: (”You promised short!”))]
Me: [Action: (Respond: (Speak: (”Wow, little snippy this morning, aren’t we?! Though I guess I did promise, didn’t I…”)))]
You: [Action: (Respond: (Speak: (”Uh, yeah GeekBoy, you did.”)))]
Me: [Action: (Respond: (Speak: (Under_Breath: (”Jerk.”))))]
You: [Action: (Raise_Hand: (Shift: (Position: (Back_Side: (Speak: (”Listen here you little..”))))]
Me: [Action: (Respond: (Speak: (”OKAY!!! Relax there champ! (Under_Breath: (”Ever heard of ‘Anger Management’ there PhreakBoy???)”)))]
You: [Action: (Speak: (”What was that???!!!”))]
Me: [Action: (Respond: (Speak: (”Nothing.”)))]
Me: [Action: (Duck)]
Me: [Action: (Fast_Forward: (Respond: (Speak: (”Six (6) hours from the time I sent the message to the time the fix was validated and live.”)))]
Me: [Action: (Respond: (Speak: (”SIX HOURS!!!“)))]
Me: [Action: (Speak: (”If you are an independent professional who wants professional blogging tools, hosting, and service from nothing less than the best in the business: SquareSpace.com“)))]
Me: [Action: (Running: (Location: (”Away from you…”)))]
Me: [Action: (Speak: (Condition: (”Slightly out of breath”), “Thanks Anthony!”))]
Me: [Action: (Running: (Speed: (Faster)))]
SquareSpace.com looks nice indeed. There's one other small problem though: they put XHTML as CDATA in "html" text constructs, while they're supposed to contain HTML 4. And since it's XHTML, they should embed it directly in "xhtml" constructs...
@copper,
Good point! I'll let Anthony know... This is one of those problems that can be a bit tricky, dependent upon whether they generate XHTML from the tag soup folks will enter into blog entry, or if they leave as is.
Either way, this can obviously and easily be fixed by using John Cowan's TagSoup HTML to XHTML processor > http://home.ccil.org/~cowan/XML/tagsoup/
Thanks for the info!
Odd that the validator isn't saying anything about this.
@Anthony,
An even better point! ;) :D
I'll post this to the Atom list and see what they have to say about it...
@All,
For those with interest in the point/counterpoint of copper/Anthony, please see (and if desired, monitor) the following thread on the Atom Syntax mailing list. In short, Sam Ruby has responded with a better understanding of all of this, of which I personally have interpreted to mean that at this stage, Anthony/SquareSpace and the Atom (1.0) feeds they emit are perfectly legit. In short, if the FeedValidator states a web feed is valid, its valid.
http://www.imc.org/atom-syntax/mail-archive/msg18746.html
Interesting comments.. :D