Thomas Broyer wrote:
This has been debated. There have been those who have expressed an
interest in having next and prev links traverse an archive of old
non-incremental feeds. Say you have a feed with the top 10 books for this
month. The next link (or prev link, depending on your preference) would
point to the archive document with the top 10 books from last month.
I think that Mark's concerns were that readers/aggregators generally keep
a local history of the feeds they're subscribed to. fh:incremental=no
would explicitly tell them not to do so.
I get that, and I think it's important - I just don't think it should be
part of this spec. It's a problem regardless of whether you have feed
history or not. I don't think that people wanting to support non-incremental
feeds (but aren't necessarily interested in feed history) should have to
read the history spec to find out how to do it.
If we want to keep this spec as simple as possible, the fh:incremental tag
is something that I think can be left out.
Regards
James
