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Merger proposal

Seeing that both Active Channel and Channel Definition Format are both stubs, and that the latter has only ever seen use for the former, I'd like to suggest that the CDF article be merged into the Active Channel article. // coldacid (talk|contrib) 17:25, 30 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

support per nom. Andy Dingley (talk) 18:22, 30 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
oppose. In the literature on the history of web syndication technology, CDF is widely discussed not because of its implementation in Active Channel, but as a predecessor to alternative formats, notably ScriptingNews and RSS. If the two articles are to be merged, I'd propose a merge of Active Channel into CDF. ARK (talk) 01:22, 31 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Incidentally: CDF was also implemented in Microsoft's Active Desktop. ARK (talk) 01:42, 31 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I never got to play much with Active Desktop except to stick my own local pages on my desktop. I knew there was some sync/syndication from literature, but never really drew the connection to CDF since I was too busy manually making/updating CDF files for my website of the time. With the expanded scope of CDF in mind, a merger may be better in the opposite direction as you suggested, or it might even be better to leave them unmerged. // coldacid (talk|contrib) 02:38, 31 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
CDF was prior art for web syndication technologies such as ICE. Microsoft's submission of CDF to the W3C as a proposed web standard also served as a catalyst for the proposal later in 1997 of RDF as a competing standard, so CDF also played a role inspiring the semantic web. The specification probably deserves its own article for the inspiration it provided to those more recent developments. Active Channel and Active Desktop, by contrast, are two separate ways of looking at pretty much the same thing, so I'd suggest that those two be merged. ARK (talk) 09:43, 25 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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