* Andrew Shugg <andrew@neep.com.au> [2003-03-23 00:23]:
> Firstly, I know it was alfie's preference to have only the first paragraph
> (as bounded by <p>...</p>) of the DSA in the RDF file, but this doesn't
> always make good sense. Take for example DSA 265, where there is a </p>
> right before the actual interesting bit that you'd actually want to read.
The intention of the first paragraph is to get an overview of the DSA.
If one wants to read more one can always come back to the website with
the included link.
> My personal preference would be for the $moreinfo to get the entire
> advisory, not just that first paragraph. If you're reading the dsa-long
> file it's going to be because you actually want to read it yourself then
> and there (not stick it in a box on the side of a web page) as a more
> light-weight alternative to using a web browser to read the HTML pages.
> That's what apps like straw (GNOME RSS reader which alfie mentioned) and
> NetNewsWire Lite (a similar program for Mac OS X) are for. So it's not
> much help to get just the first couple of lines of the DSA and then have
> to go and open up the advisory again in a web browser. Let's have the
> whole thing.
I like to disagree. RSS was always meant to just get the people
interested, IMHO. The facility to link to the full article isn't there
just for fun.
> Secondly, as far as I know the HTML tags being used in the DSA wml files
> are not valid in RDF. I've looked through the W3C docs on RDF and can't
> find anything that says HTML is allowed in <description> containers. It
> might work in straw but doesn't in NNWL. So I think HTML tags should be
> removed from the RDF format.
*hmm* Interesting. Then many of the other sites that I have taken a
look at have simiar problems, like e.g. advogato.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not fully against your suggestions, at least I
am not unconvincable. If some others speak up that your changes are a
good thing I'm willing to change my mind about it.
Have fun,
Alfie
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