On 10/25/05, Thomas Broyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Luke Arno  wrote:
> > On 10/24/05, Eric Scheid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> insignificant != no-value.
> >> insignificant != no-difference.
> >>
> >> scenario: You've written an entry, then some minor spelling boo boo is
> >> brought to your attention. you edit the entry, save it without bumping
> >> atom:updated because you don't want to annoy your readers with every
> >> damn little tweak. Later you want to add a significant update with the
> >> latest news ... and your editor then reverts the copy to the spell buggy
> >> version.
> >
> > Your editor performs a GET on the entry before you
> > edit it, thus retrieving your spelling corrections.
>
> How can you be _that_ sure?
>
> How about offline editing?
> I connect to the Internet and sync my blog. Later on, without Internet
> link, I want to edit an entry.
>
> This could happen because I'm in a train, airplane, taxi, bus, or just
> because I don't have Wifi and want to go into the garden with my laptop,
> or because I don't have a DSL connection (I would consider AtomPP buggy if
> it obliged me to stay online in order to edit entries).
>

Offline editing will require conflict resolution, regardless.

- Luke

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