[Sigia-l] web site design vs RSS

[Eric Scheid]

On 19/10/07 7:42 PM, "Ziya Oz" <listera at earthlink.net> wrote:

>> Now, imagine they choose to see the CSS for each entry per the source CSS.
>> Simple binary choice to turn on/off the CSS for each source, but seriously
>> more difficult to implement: CSS for source #1 has "p {font-family:
>> tahoma;}", CSS for source #2 has "p {font-family: courier;}", the page
>> contains <p/> elements from both sources ... now the dev has to parse (and
>> second guess broken syntax) and munge the CSS and the html such that the
>> appropriate rules apply only to the appropriate entries.
> 
> Now, your preposterous example above is predicated upon a feed being
> malformed. 

Nope, not malformed. A feed reader aggregates multiple feeds, and presents
them in a UI in the "river of news" model. Nothing malformed there. You're
proposing optionally considering the CSS associated with both feeds, and if
you want to do that then you've got a problem. Of course you could override
one or both with a user style-sheet, or even turn both off completely, which
is a trivial thing. It's the mixed feed CSS case which is more tricky and
you haven't yet shown you even understand this.

e.