Comments on: When to Use Atom http://iansrobinson.com/2010/01/19/when-to-use-atom/ Ian Robinson's Blog Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:27:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Andrew Wahbe http://iansrobinson.com/2010/01/19/when-to-use-atom/comment-page-1/#comment-173 Andrew Wahbe Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:20:40 +0000 http://iansrobinson.com/?p=170#comment-173 Agreed! I thought I was the only person in the "envelope camp"! (Though I hate the name "envelope" as it has negative connotations for most folks...) I think a key point to stress is that this model decouples the processing context and the content. This applies to the data as the content can have its own format and media type (and even it's own URI) that are independent of Atom. And it also applies to the processors as the generic Atom client could be used with other content types and the content processor could potentially be used in other processing contexts. An analogous browser-based application might be an HTML-based employee listing that allows you to download vCards that are handled by a mail client. Agreed! I thought I was the only person in the “envelope camp”! (Though I hate the name “envelope” as it has negative connotations for most folks…)

I think a key point to stress is that this model decouples the processing context and the content. This applies to the data as the content can have its own format and media type (and even it’s own URI) that are independent of Atom. And it also applies to the processors as the generic Atom client could be used with other content types and the content processor could potentially be used in other processing contexts.

An analogous browser-based application might be an HTML-based employee listing that allows you to download vCards that are handled by a mail client.

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