A. Pagaltzis wrote:
Imagine a wiki where you can delete as well as undelete pages. Atom IDs are associated with pages, not single versions of a page. You want to represent the history of a page in an Atom feed. If tombstones lack datetimestamps, you can’t.
Sure you could do that, but it would be completely useless to a typical feed reader, which is all I care about (and I thought that was Brian's interest too).
What would be useful (to a feed reader) is the kind of feed that Wikipedia already produces. That does a great job of representing wiki history and it doesn't require tombstones of any kind.
I understand that there are all sorts of exciting things that people may want to do with feeds. However, all I'm interested in is feeds that are of use to a general purpose feed reader. And the same goes for what I want in a tombstone spec.
If there are people that want to do other things with tombstones related to publishing or two-way syncing or whatever, that's great. I just don't see why we have to try and share the same protocol if it means making my life more difficult.
Regards James
