Can you substantiate that with links to the appropriate portions of
the current protocol draft?
On 18/10/2005, at 9:40 AM, Robert Sayre wrote:
I think the navigation elements of
draft-nottingham-atompub-feed-history-04.txt overlap with Atom
protocol navigation and deployed APP beta implementations. In fact, I
pointed this out way back in April 2005. I don't think anything has
changed.
In <http://www.mnot.net/blog/2005/04/12/feed_state> Mark Nottingham
wrote:
Way back when I put the first Atom drafts together, I included a
placeholder for
a section that I hoped would allow reconstruction of feed state.
Presently, this often
isn't necessary, because you have to be away for a seriously long
time
(e.g, on vacation) before you actually miss anything.
...
In other words, if you happen to look away for too long you miss
information,
essentially making the channel leaky. To that end, I put together
a proposal and a
demonstration feed (in fact this very blog's feed, dear reader),
in the hopes of
convincing people that this is a real issue. Silence ensued, and the
ATOMPUB WG declined my proposal.
to which Robert Sayre replied:
Hmm. Your proposal concerned a couple link relations, right? Those
would be
easy to add to the format at anytime, and... Blogger and 6A have
both asked for
similar functionality on the protocol side. Seems like more of a
server layout
and protocol problem, anyway.
to which Mark Nottingham replied:
Robert —
The only problem I have with that is that AFAIK so far, I don't
need to know about the
protocol document to consume an Atom document; it's only when you
want to
manipulate a feed that you have to work on that side of the house.
That said, it's good to hear that others want this too.
to which Robert Sayre replied:
Well, wouldn't it be nice if you didn't need to know about the
protocol document to
perform any of the protocol's read operations? That's my thinking.
View-source on a
couple of link relations should be enough to pick it up.
Robert Sayre
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Mark Nottingham Principal Technologist
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