[uf-discuss] hAtom + Sparkle

Thu Jul 26 17:54:09 PDT 2007

Ooo! I've wanted to see this happen for a long time! hAtom + Sparkle  
is a *fantastic* application of Microformats. I agree that hatom is  
the way forward but also think that hAppcast would be a good idea to  
explore.

I've created the following page to kick things off:

http://microformats.org/wiki/ appcast-brainstorming

Looking forward to your contributions. I'll add more when I'm on a  
real computer.

Chris

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On Jul 26, 2007, at 12:15 PM, "Denis Defreyne" <denis.defreyne at stoneship.org 
 > wrote:

> Hello list,
>
> I have a Downloads page, which I would like to mark up in such a way  
> that
> Sparkle (<http://sparkle.andymatuschak.org/>), an application update
> framework, can use the HTML page (as well as an RSS feed) to determine
> whether there are application updates, present the version history,  
> and
> download the update as well as install it.
>
> I have a few ideas already, but I'd love to get some feedback so I  
> can make
> this better.
>
> Sparkle currently relies on an RSS feed with a few extra attributes  
> for
> version checking. This results in content duplication, though: both  
> the RSS
> feed and the downloads page contain very similar data. Only  
> maintaining the
> HTML page would mean less work, and less chance of syncing errors  
> between
> the feed and the page.
>
> As for the way the HTML page would be structuredâ€¦ this is more  
> or less what
> I have in mind: I'd use hAtom to mark up the page. Every application  
> version
> would be in its own hentry, with a rel-enclosure link to the actual
> download, and the version history in the entry-content.
>
> Sparkle can use some extra metadata, though: MD5 sums, DSA  
> signatures, and
> the application version (the latter is mandatory). The application  
> version
> could be marked up using a sparkle-version class, perhaps, but the  
> MD5 sum
> is a bit harder: I'd need something bigger than just rel-enclosure.
>
> Here's a quick example of what this could look like:
>
>   <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
>   <html>
>       <head>
>           <title>Appcast</title>
>       </head>
>       <body>
>           <h1>Appcast</h1>
>           <div class="hentry">
>               <h2 class="entry-title">Adium <span
> class="sparkle-version">1.0.4</span></h2>
>               <p>Updated on <abbr class="updated"
> title="2007-06-20T18:00+01:00">24 June</abbr>.</p>
>               <div class="entry-content">
>                   <ul>
>                       <li>Fixed a crash introduced in 1.0.3 which  
> could occur when
> accounts disconnected or status changed</li>
>                       <li>Fixed group chat when message history is  
> enabled</li>
>                   </ul>
>               </div>
>               <p><a href="http://adiumx.cachefly.net/Adium_1.0.4.dmg"
> rel="enclosure">Download</a>. MD5 sum: <span
> class="sparkle-md5sum">0f182a2c88373e6d77c69fa15c910f08</span>.</p>
>           </div>
>       </body>
>   </html>
>
> In this example, I've chose to make the sparkle-md5sum property part  
> of the
> hentry, which would mean that one hentry can unfortunately have only  
> one
> md5sum and thus one download, and I'm not happy about that.
>
> (I've also left out the author in the example above, mostly because  
> it makes
> the example a bit easier to read.)
>
> I've been working on a patch for Sparkle which adds very basic  
> support for
> hAtom, and it's looking good. Before I continue, I'd love to get some
> feedbacks on the ideas outlined above.
>
> Regards,
>
> Denis
>
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