i made a little twtxt feed fixer for when a feed uses other whitespace instead of tabs.
trying to keep it simple but.. perhaps it can be extended to fix timestamp formats like using " " instead of "T"
@xuu@txt.sour.is People should just fix their feeds. :-)
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org True, but we should also consider building tolerant “systems” 😉
@prologic@twtxt.net Tolerant yes, but in the right places. This is just encouraging people to not properly care. The extreme end is HTML where parsers basically accept any input. I’m not a fan of that. Whatever.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Agree. I’m not sure we should lax the timestamp format at all IMO. What @xuu@txt.sour.is has found is kind of nuts haha 😆 However I do think we should relax the \t separator between <timestamp> and <content>. Let users use any valid whitespace here that isn’t a newline or carriage return.
What exact feeds are we talking about that uses spaces instead of tabs or the T’s in timestamp?