On 5 May 2005, at 3:32 pm, Henry Story wrote:
As I explained in my lengthy reply to your lengthy post, I think one should be able to do either.
Each way has its advantages and disadvantages. Let the publisher decide which mechanism to use.
Well please flag it so that I can provide a consistent user interface to people's whims?
Since it does not cause any interoperability issues, what's the problem?
I have to come up with a new way to recognise and interpret such feeds where an entry (as defined by its id) isn't an entry but a feed of different entries.
I don't think that one would be using ids as a category system. If you go to
<http://google.com> you get todays front page. Tomorrow you get tomorrows front page.
What's the problem? Is <http://google.com> a hidden category system?
Charter: "Atom defines a feed format for representing resources such as Weblogs, online journals, Wikis,
and similar content"
Atom is not a replacement for HTTP. Google.com is a web page, not "similar content". It's not relevant here.
Graham
