James M Snell wrote:
The feed thread draft is a major update that includes a simplification of
the in-reply-to element.
<in-reply-to
id="tag:example.org,2005:some-unique-id"
href="http://example.com/some-location"; />
I really like what you've done with this. I have a couple of questions
though.
What is the type of the resource pointed to by the in-reply-to href? It
seems to me it can't be an Atom feed since that isn't really a
representation of the resource being responded to (although that would
probably be most useful here). An Atom entry document? An HTML web page?
What would you expect a client application to do with this value? A link to
the source feed I could see myself using (in combination with the id
obviously), but I'm not sure about the other two.
Second question: what is the reason for recommending a related link when the
href points to something external? It seems to me an unnecessary duplication
of information but I may be missing something. And once again what would you
expect the client to do with it? A HTML page could be provided to the user
as a clickable link, but an Atom feed? An Atom entry document? Obviously the
answer to this depends on the type of the href, which brings us back to
initial question.
Regards
James
