James M Snell a écrit :
Thomas Broyer wrote:
Mark Nottingham wrote:
- Attribute Value: previous
- Description: A URI that refers to the immediately preceding
document in a series of documents.
This definition doesn't prevent someone from using this link relation
for
linking within a series of documents representing, say a "webring",
where
"previous" and "next" will be other sites' feeds.
I really think we should make it clear that first/previous/next/last are
meant for "paging" of a single feed only.
I'll try to propose a replacement text.
-1. I see no reason to limit this to paging of a single feed.
How would you use these link relations for feed state reconstruction
(that is, automatic handling by the Atom processor, without user action
–except probably the "please reconstruct this feed's state" action) if
you can't know what's pointed at?
How would you navigate through a paged search result (e.g. OpenSearch
result feed) if previous/next might point at previous/next queries (e.g.
history of what people searched for before you) or previous/next pages
of the result feed?
How would you disambiguate between two "next" link on pointing at the
next chunk of a paged feed and the other pointing at the next archived
feed? (e.g. "August Top 100, page 2" and "September Top 100")
I thought we all agreed that we need a specific definition (related to
paging) of these relations and were previously voting about how to call
them (previous or prev-archive)
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Thomas Broyer
