@julian
I would actually really like to use Article to encapsulate rich multi-page and potentially mixed-media content. For example, think of the 1609 project website. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html

Or imagine an academic paper where you could bookmark, comment, and share subsections of the document. Like the abstract, diagrams, and conclusions.

Which is not to argue against accepting a larger html subset. Just not to make that the limit of our imagination.

@mikedev @jupiter_rowland @renchap

julian: Mike (upthread) suggested a compromise: that as:Note be reserved for content with attachments (images or otherwise), perhaps with a limited subset of html and as:Article be used for content with a richer set of html (e.g. tables), and including the ability to display inline images I explicitly did not specify that Note was for shorter content and Article for longer, because there exist plenty of examples of the reverse. Does anybody see potential complications from such an arrangement? I think the distinction that makes sense to me is still "do you intend for this to be formally published or not". Length and formatting are red herrings. The entire Note vs Article "distinction" is literally just "tweet vs blog post" in how it came about. From the perspective of a service like Twitter or Facebook, the Note indicates it's a "status update" whereas the Article indicates it should be shown/presented in their article publishing feature (which Twitter ironically called Notes). Consider this litmus test: if viewing the object at a permalink, does it make sense on its own, or do you need more context? If you need more context, it's probably a Note. If it makes sense on its own, it's probably an Article. (Note that this doesn't prevent Articles from having a context property.)

@julian

+1

Article = rich content, embedded images, videos, and other media.

But how embedded images should be treated by implementations that use media cache? Are they expected to rewrite src attributes in images?

@jupiter_rowland @renchap @mikedev

I'm still catching up on the whole discussion, but I'd mention that WriteFreely sends out Articles by default, with a config option to send Notes instead.

I've experimented with automatically falling back to Note if a post has only one paragraph, but agreed that's not a great distinction. (And I don't think an automatic switch should be needed for a platform like ours.)

Definitely inclined to agree with @trwnh that intent makes the difference. Since WF is meant for blogging / long-form, where each Actor has a unique webpage, Article was the easy choice. The hope was that other platforms would figure out UX on the other end eventually.