On Thursday, February 3, 2005, at 07:54 PM, Robert Sayre wrote:
I don't see any reason why a feed reader couldn't give you the option of automatically subscribing to the comment feeds that grow off of the posts in a feed and automatically organize those subscriptions hierarchically under the original. Then, if a thread got uninteresting, you could unsubscribe to just that part of it and never have to download that chunk of it again. A slight variation would be to provide a one-click subscription to comments off of the top level, and then automatically subscribe to the threads underneath it--that would require a lot less manual maintenance to avoid overload. If the top level were fully automatic, it would be pretty messy for a high volume site like Slashdot, for example, but a nested comments feed would be worse, since it would be less simple to hack off the uninteresting threads.2.) A Blog w/ comments, where on post serves as the root of a collectionQ: Has any previous flavor of RSS had a solution for this?
of other posts.
HTML-- http://www.livejournal.com/users/giant_moose/
Atom 0.3, no indication of comments-- http://www.livejournal.com/users/giant_moose/data/atom
No, but the problem isn't that hard. I wouldn't be surprised if LJ has some private format for this, but I don't know if they do.
Q: Do we have a proposal on something to handle this?
PaceEntriesElement would do it.
I believe there is a proposal for a <link rel="comment"> which would do the job.
It wouldn't handle that example. The comments are nested. XML elements nest pretty well. It would handle the first case... but only by reference. You couldn't "subscribe to posts with comments".
