[wp-xmlrpc] description vs. mt_text_more

[Daniel Jalkut]

On Jan 9, 2008, at 10:23 AM, Joseph Scott wrote:

> You could infer that it exists and show it on the client side so  
> that the user knows its there.

I think the <!-- more --> is about the least desirable means of  
expressing "there's a divider between that text and this text".  So  
most clients will adopt a different means of expressing it, rather  
than reusing the same hack.

> I think this was one of those things that the original API specs  
> didn't take into consideration.  Others would know more about the  
> history of that than I.

So in this case the API is perfect, because it correctly identifies  
the semantic meaning of the two chunks of text, without forcing a  
weird shorthand on clients. It would be annoying to have to scan for  
and manually divide based on the presence of this magic tag.

Daniel