-1: I helped write the Atom spec and even I'm not in favor of switching away from XRD. It would have to be incredibly compelling to even consider a switch at this point in the process, and I don't see anything compelling or at all broken with XRD. It would also pull in a bunch of baggage which XRD itself doesn't need and which would only complexify the process of understanding the spec.<br clear="all">
--<br>John Panzer / Google<br><a href="mailto:jpanzer@google.com">jpanzer@google.com</a> / <a href="http://abstractioneer.org">abstractioneer.org</a> / @jpanzer<br><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:09 PM, SitG Admin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sysadmin@shadowsinthegarden.com">sysadmin@shadowsinthegarden.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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There are probably more developers that have experience generating Atom feeds than XRD documents.<br>
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So "IF" we could use Atom to achieve the same purpose as XRD, then it is likely that developers may be jumping on it rather than having to learn yet another format.<br>
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Agreed. I tried writing it to specify "OpenID developers", but kept having trouble phrasing that in a non-awkward way, so I finally just gave up and left that part out. For moving forward in the immediate future, we unfortunately have to look at the developers already interested in OpenID; a further (if short) delay would ensue if they had to mentally adjust from using XRD to using Atom, and whether this delay is worth it for the likelihood that future developers would be more welcoming of OpenID if they could use Atom instead of XRD (or that more of them would not experience the delay from having to learn a new format, whether that be Atom or XRD) is a question I am not well-positioned to answer; I did, though, try to help explicate what it was that Santosh was asking. (I did not do very well at it.)<br>
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I still believe that popularity does not, will not, and cannot help me to understand something new. If that popularity results in a plethora of documentation on the internet, *the documentation* can help - but simply a lot of people liking it, will not.<div>
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-Shade<br>
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