Bob Wyman wrote:
determining "importance" and some, like spaces.msn.com won't even try to
have such rules, it is very hard to understand how a reader UI could do
anything useful with the "importance" component of atom:updated.
Prior art in syndication suggests that this functionality is usually accomplished through structural changes to the entry or through new URIs, not timestamps. Does anyone have an example of a syndication format that indicates "significant updates" through a timestamp alone?
Robert Sayre
