Bill de hOra wrote: > [snip] > 1: If it doesn't have a permalink (or a link at all), it's not on the > web; in all seriousness, why do we care about it? >
Whether the thing has a permalink or not is irrelevant. We're talking about having a mechanism of indicating when an entry is no longer part of a collection or a feed. It could be that the entry still exists in some form or other somewhere else, but how do I know that the thing is no longer part of a specific feed? > 2: why does it matter, the difference between falling off the bottom and > being deleted? > Define "falling off". If the feed is paged, does "falling off" mean we'll find the entry on the next or previous page? What if the feed only shows the 100 most recent items? What should I do with my local copy of the entry if suddenly the entry no longer appears in the feed? There is a significant difference between falling off and being deleted. - James > cheers > Bill > >
