Tim Bray: Before too much longer, there are going to be a lot of Web resources named this.atom, that.atom, and the-other.atom being dished out by Web Servers everywhere, and by default those servers are gonna look at the names and say âDot-atom what? Yer text/plain, punk.â So I appealed to Greg Stein of Apache and Google, and he had a pow-wow and reported back I've gone ahead and done this: the application/atom+xml (for .atom) type will appear in our next releases (Apache 1.3.32 and Apache 2.0.51), whenever those come out. Well, Apacheâs not the only server out there, so I wrote off to Obasanjo and Scoble and said âHereâs the problem, how about IIS?â. So Scoble did some digging and got routed to Thomas Deml, lead program manager on IIS, and I saw a forwarded email saying The change goes into Win2K3, SP1.
Randy: Sometimes, it's the small things that make big things happen. Down the road, we'll all forget this took place. Let's bookmark it to make certain that doesn't happen.
