[occi-wg] Microsoft: "Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub) as the future direction"

[M. David Peterson]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 7:57 AM, M. David Peterson <xmlhacker at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> The browser vendors need to catch up with the rest of the devices and
> applications out there which speak fluent HTTP 1.1
>

I should clarify this statement: From an internal perspective, very few web
browsers don't speak fluent HTTP 1.1.  They may each interpret the spec just
a tad bit differently, and they've certainly been known to leave out support
for critical pieces such as -- oh, I don't know, ETags for example! ;-)

Where they fall short is exposing that support at the API level in a
consistent, cross browser manner.

This is just my own opinion, of course, but if the HTML5 WG /REALLY/ wanted
to make a difference they'd stop trying to agree upon defining element names
and definitions which can just as easily be implemented via the
'object/@type' element/attribute combination** , and instead use their time
to first, come to terms with how to expose full client/server support for
the HTTP 1.1 spec to the developer such that each node on the net is both a
client /AND/ a server, to then establish a formalized process for
introducing additional protocols into the mix that have proven to be of
value to a broader swath of developers (XMPP anyone? BitTorrent? AtomPub?
Kermit? ;-)) and are therefore candidates for finding their way into the
toolbags of /ALL/ developers and usable by /ALL/ folks who just so happen to
have a communication protocol standards compliant web browser installed on
their machine.

 A man can dream, can't he! ;-)

** okay, that's obviously a stretch, but what's the difference between
agreeing upon a common set of param/@name child elements and defining
attribute names for a 'video' element? Answer: One less element to have to
kill off in 10 years when holograms become all the rage and the video
element goes the way of the blink element. ;-)

-- 
/M:D

M. David Peterson
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