Sunday, October 27, 2002

Recent Radio Links Test review: Often we draw conclusions based on a test with what is broke and what is working, then a day or so later, Radio is functioning correctly, as though there is some lag in the software recognizing that there is something out there that should be indexed using the double quote system.  Some wtuff that looks Ok for the owner of the Radio, really only works because the stuff is pointing at what is on our hard disk and does not work for other PC users. Double quotes in sentences in stories referencing other stories or shortcuts do become links in Radio. This works for other PC users. Double quotes in sentences in short cuts referencing stories failed to become links in Radio. Double quotes in sentences on home page referencing stories or shortcuts do become links in Radio. This works for other PC users. Home page usage of double quoted links to stories or shortcuts work correctly in RSS news aggregation.  However, as we have just seen, this does not matter if the shortcut connection is flawed.  In other words, Radio stories work better than Radio shortcuts. This works for other PC users Double quotes in sentences on category pages referencing stories do become links in Radio. This works for other PC users. Category page usage of double quoted links to stories fail to work correctly in RSS news aggregation.  This means that if we want links to our stories to work in categories where quoted by other people, then the posting to the category page needs to use the actual url link and not the double quoted version. There are probably other variations on this worth trying from time to time, since Radio software is continuously improved, and as I learn more Link Types. Rule of thumb here (conclusions for now) is to forget about double quoting system on home page and categories, because sometimes I will want to make a post in a category, and I will not want a messed up RSS news aggregation. depend upon double quoting system inside stories. 4:09:03 PM

Thankyou Dave Winer for giving me a definition of SOAP ... there is too much jargon out there for my tastes. [Scripting News] QUOTE MSDN: The Argument Against SOAP Encoding. I have no idea what he's talking about, but he almost got the original intent of SOAP right. It's a simple way to call procedures running on other machines, on other OSes, written in other languages, using different economic systems, without being forced to pay a tax to Microsoft, IBM, Apple, Sun or the W3C. UNQUOTE [Scripting News] 2:51:20 PM

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