On 18/10/2005, at 12:38 PM, Robert Sayre wrote:
A stable URI that, when dereferenced, returns a feed document
containing a set of entries that sequentially precede those in the
current document.
I already have code that uses "next" for this. Why do we want to
change it?
Why would your code have to change?
This can be thought of as specific to those
entries; in other words, it represents a fixed section of the feed,
rather than a sliding window over it. Note that the exact nature of
the ordering between the entries and documents containing them is
not defined by this relation; i.e., this relation is only relative.
1.) I don't understand why one feed is making assertions about the
stability of another, when your draft provides explicit signals for
this.
If we go down this road, my draft will be, at the most, a users'
guide to the link relations. It probably won't be necessary at all,
except perhaps for <fh:incremental>false</fh:incremental>.
2.) I still don't see how this helps me write a client.
What are you looking for? People said they wanted to use atom:link,
so I'm trying to accommodate that. People said they wanted the
relations to be generic, so I'm trying to accommodate that.
3.) I don't think the notion of "fixed section" is helpful.
<fh:archive> is good, that means "don't subscribe"... I get that.
It characterises the nature of the feed that's being linked to.
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Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
