Tim Bray wrote:
Yes, atom:modified would require that I update the date, and have the
entry fetched another ten thousand times, even if I made a change that
struck me as trivial. Since I'm a good citizen about specs, I would do
this wasteful thing. Others would just ignore it. -Tim
No, not at all. With only atom:updated, you either say "everyone must
re-read this" or you don't. With both atom:updated and atom:modified,
you can either say that, or you can say "only obsessives running
BrayWatcher need to notice that two letters of this have changed." At
least to me, that was the whole point: I am going to replace my current
RCS-based "show me every trivial edit" system with an Atom-based one,
while still being able to tell aggregators that they don't need to
bother their users when I just fix a typo. The only question is if I do
it with atom:modified, which will let me also do it for my
Blogger-produced feeds, where I don't control the output, and do it so
other people can use it too, or if I do it with phil:modified, and it
only works for me, and only with some of the tools I use to publish.
Phil Ringnalda
- Re: Refresher on Updated/Modified Phil Ringnalda
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