[UPDATE [2005-09-19T14:18:00Z] : Done. Please see the entry to each section for access to the Atom 0.3 format (atom-0.3.xml) if your feed reader does not currently support version 1.0 of the Atom Syndication format, the native Atom format of the atom.xml file contained in the root for each section.]
[Original Post]
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Donald Knuth vs. the W3C HTML Validator
I first learned of this "flame" to the W3C Validator group via a link that Dimitre sent to me in email. Finding it amusing I set it aside as something to post to this blog as soon as I had a free chance. Of course I hadn't even considered the implications this had on my own recent actions to dump the Atom 0.3 versions of the Atom feeds for this site and replace them, without warning, with Atom 1.0 versions. Of course I realized how this "flame" from Dr. Knuth applied directly to me (and the rest of the Atom 1.0 loving/Atom 0.3 shunning community in general) when I read this post from Dare, which starts:
Recently, Sam Ruby announced that the Atom 0.3 syndication format would be deprecated by the Feed Validator. When I first read his post I half wondered what would happen if someone complained about being told their previously valid feed was no longer valid simply because it was now using an "old" format. This afternoon I found an email from Donald Knuth (yes, that one) to the www-validator@w3.org mailing list complaining about just that. In his mail note from Prof Knuth, he writes
[NOTE: Please see Dare's original post for the body of Dr. Knuth's message to the W3C Validation list.]
Umm.... Oooopsss... "Lookz likez I'z gotz' sum workz' to duz...." I'll fix that this evening.
Sorry bout' that everyone!!!