On 12/6/06, James M Snell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Mark Baker wrote: > [snip] > Isn't that just a case of people not implementing the whole spec > though? FWIW, if that practice is widespread, then I think the group > should consider deprecating entry documents. Minting a new media type > won't help. > The interesting question is *why* haven't those applications implemented support for Entry Documents. My guess is that Entry documents aren't particularly interesting to their use cases which is likely because they serve a different purpose.
Makes sense. I forgot that entry documents were used for creation in APP. But serving different purposes does not necessitate a different media type. Both Firefox and Googlebot are voracious consumers of text/html documents, yet for very different purposes. Mark.