From what has been said recently previous versions of RSS had no versioning mechanism. It was therefore not possible for software to automate the difference tracking behavior. Hence your problem is partly related to the limitations in the previous formats.
Since Atom does in fact have a versioning feature, it should be very easy for software to allow the user to select the sensitivity to changes that he desires to be made aware of. This will be a fertile ground for competition among clients. I say let the market selectand filter through all the different methods to select what should or should not be considered an important change.
As an end user I may decide that feeds from a particular person should
be very carefully tracked for changes (say some updates to a contract feed), whereas other feeds need only alert me for very large changes (perhaps my cousin's site).
Henry
On 6 Feb 2005, at 12:47, Eric Scheid wrote:
On 6/2/05 10:16 PM, "Henry Story" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thinking about it, I would be in favor of clarifying it to be "any change should result in a date update". Clients can do simple diffs and work out themselves if the changes warrant a new date. Presumably clients that see that the only change has been to the white space layout may decide that this is not important enough to notify their user.
every day I wade through dozens of changed entries where someone fixes a
typo or punctuation or other really trivial stuff I wouldn't classify as
significant, and I'd be surprised if the publisher would too.
e.
