James Holderness wrote: > That's not the only flaw. Imagine you have a feed full of deleted > entries. > With the SSE method, a new user (that didn't understand tombstones) > would > end up seeing a feed full of entries with blank or "This is deleted" > content. With James' method, they'd see nothing (which is exactly what > you'd > want). > > This was discussed last year when James first proposed tombstones. I > suggest > anyone that wasn't around at the time go and look up the threads from > back > then. Might save some time rehashing old arguments. > > Regards > James
As I mentioned in my response to James, if clients need to ask for tombstones, then this problem disappears. As you hinted at above, the opt-in for clients has an added benefit even for clients that DO understand tombstones. On the initial sync of a feed, most sync-aware clients will still want to ask for the feed without tombstones, so that they can just get the non-deleted items. After the initial sync, then they can ask for tombstoned items as well. Steven
