Atom Publishing Protocol Clients?

By Dougal | Published: January 21, 2007

Does anyone have a suggestion for a blog client that implements the Atom Publishing Protocol API? I’d prefer a client that runs under Linux, but I could also deal with a Windows-based client using Wine. I’d particularly like to find something that actually attempts to deal with media resources (images, sound files, etc). I’ve got a couple of Firefox extensions (Atomic and Yulup), but they both seem to have shortcomings that prevent me from using them for in-depth testing.

“Testing what”, you ask? Hopefully, you’ll find out pretty soon…

Atom Publishing Protocol Clients?

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6 Comments

skippy skippy.net

Posted January 23, 2007 at 12:29 am | Permalink

Drivel is a GNU/Linux GTK app that purports to support Atom. I’ve only briefly tinkered with it.

Dougal dougal.gunters.org

Posted January 23, 2007 at 11:02 am | Permalink

Thanks, skippy, I haven’t run across that one. I’m really surprised at how hard it is to locate blogging clients like this.

http://necronomicorp.com/bct necronomicorp.com

Posted January 26, 2007 at 2:41 pm | Permalink

It looks like Drivel supports the Atom API, rather than the Atom Publishing Protocol. The difference between the two is going to be a big source of confusion.

Dougal dougal.gunters.org

Posted January 26, 2007 at 4:17 pm | Permalink

I admit I haven’t watched Atom development as closely as I should have. Is the Atom API just an earlier version of what’s now called APP, or are they two completely separate things?

defuze defuze.myopenid.com

Posted January 27, 2007 at 11:04 am | Permalink

Atom is the XML format described in RFC 4287.

APP is a publishing/editing protocol based on HTTP and using Atom as the unit of message.

Brendan Taylor necronomicorp.com

Posted February 8, 2007 at 5:08 pm | Permalink

I’ve tried to clear up the confusion between the two: http://necronomicorp.com/lab/12

There’s now a list of clients on the Atom wiki: http://intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/Implementations