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                            Now and future features
                                        
In talking the subject over with Rob [1] and some email exchanges with Aaron
Swartz [2] I've decided that even though I'm a bit relunctant [3] I've
decided to go ahead to include the entry bodies in my RSS (Rich Site Summary)
[4] feed. 

As Aaron said: 

> But it's OK for their browser to reformat it as they see fit? What if my
> aggregator is my browser. 
> 

He has a point. And if Marcus [5], who spent over a month working on his site
design is okay with his RSS (Rich Site Summary) [6] feed … 

It wasn't that much work to add the full descriptions (although I did have to
add some code to make sure that the entries contained abosolute URL (Uniform
Resource Locator)s but nothing difficult). 

Now, adding comments to my journal/blog on the other hand … 

At first, it was one (Resilient's Livejournal) [7] person asking for
comments. After awhile there was someone else (The Compleat Iconoclast) [8].
Now I have a whole gaggle of people clamouring for me to add comments. 

Sigh. 

It's not like it's difficult or anything; I just don't know how I want to
integrate them with the rest of this site. This whole site is an experiment
where each entry has a unique URL—and one that isn't tied to a portion of a
page (I dislike having to use the fragment portion of the URL to specify a
document fragment—why else would I go through the trouble of writing a bunch
of code to handle portions [9] of documents [10]?). So I would like to treat
comments the same way I treat entries here, but I'm unsure of the best way to
go about doing that. 

And even if I figure out a way, do I always display the comments? Have a link
to read the comments? Not quite cut and dry. 

Still pondering … 

[1] http://www.tragic-smurfs.com/
[2] http://www.aaronsw.com/
[3] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2002/07/25.2
[4] https://boston.conman.org/bostondiaries.rss
[5] http://viastellarum.antville.org/
[6] http://viastellarum.antville.org/rss10
[7] http://www.livejournal.com/users/resilient/
[8] http://viastellarum.antville.org/
[9] https://github.com/spc476/mod_litbook
[10] http://boston.conman.org/about/technical.html

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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