Re: New Link Relations? [was: Feed History -04]

2005-10-18 Thread Eric Scheid
On 18/10/05 3:32 PM, Mark Nottingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Such agents should also take care to detect circular references between feeds when following them. s/between feeds when/between feed documents/ otherwise +1 e.

Re: Are Generic Link Relations Always a Good Idea? [was: Feed History -04]

2005-10-18 Thread Thomas Broyer
Antone Roundy wrote: If the complete set represents all the entries ever published through an ever-changing feed document (what a feed currently is, you subscribe with an URI and the document you get when dereferencing the URI changes as a sliding-window upon a set of entries), then paging

Re: Are Generic Link Relations Always a Good Idea? [was: Feed History -04]

2005-10-18 Thread Eric Scheid
On 18/10/05 6:14 PM, Thomas Broyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, and navigating through the historical states of the feed resource is not paging, it's more like having access to archives. I was thinking about proposing yet another link relation archives: in the general use case, it would

Re: Are Generic Link Relations Always a Good Idea? [was: Feed History -04]

2005-10-18 Thread Eric Scheid
On 18/10/05 5:51 PM, Thomas Broyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can there be more than one paging semantic applied to a single feed? If a feed (not feed document) is a set of entries (sorted by whatever metadata: updated, priority, relevance, etc.) and you publish chunks as many feed

Re: New Link Relations? [was: Feed History -04]

2005-10-18 Thread Robert Sayre
On 10/18/05, Mark Nottingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Requiring a separate element to always be present is a non-starter; what is the point of a reusable link relation if you have to use it with another element to contextualise it? I'm really stretching to see any benefit from this approach.

Re: Are Generic Link Relations Always a Good Idea? [was: Feed History -04]

2005-10-18 Thread James M Snell
Thomas Broyer wrote: Mark Nottingham wrote: They seem similar. But, what if you want to have more than one paging semantic applied to a single feed, and those uses of paging don't align? I.e., there's contention for prev/next? How can there be more than one paging semantic applied

Feed History / Protocol overlap

2005-10-18 Thread Robert Sayre
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

Re: Feed History / Protocol overlap

2005-10-18 Thread Mark Nottingham
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

Re: Feed History / Protocol overlap

2005-10-18 Thread Robert Sayre
On 10/18/05, Mark Nottingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you substantiate that with links to the appropriate portions of the current protocol draft? Oh that's odd. They've gone and deleted them. I can tell you that my general impression of the current atom-protocol list was that we would

Re: Feed History / Protocol overlap

2005-10-18 Thread Mark Nottingham
OK, well, I'm not terribly fussed by who registers them, but they need to be carefully defined, and it wasn't at all clear that the OpenSearch document did that. Considering that there's a need for them sooner rather than later, would you have a problem with registering the link

Re: Feed History -04

2005-10-18 Thread Henry Story
My laptop broke down so I am having touble following all of this thread, but I agree that next, prev, ... should just suggest a linked list. There should then be special links for hist-prev, hist-next, ... that are in rdf terms sub-properties of prev, next, etc... On the atom-owl mailing

Re: Feed History / Protocol overlap

2005-10-18 Thread Robert Sayre
On 10/18/05, Mark Nottingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, well, I'm not terribly fussed by who registers them, but they need to be carefully defined, and it wasn't at all clear that the OpenSearch document did that. I think maybe we have a difference of opinion on what's needed here.

Re: Feed History / Protocol overlap

2005-10-18 Thread Mark Nottingham
On 18/10/2005, at 11:38 AM, Robert Sayre wrote: OK, well, I'm not terribly fussed by who registers them, but they need to be carefully defined, and it wasn't at all clear that the OpenSearch document did that. I think maybe we have a difference of opinion on what's needed here. Could you

Re: Feed History / Protocol overlap

2005-10-18 Thread Robert Sayre
On 10/18/05, Mark Nottingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18/10/2005, at 11:38 AM, Robert Sayre wrote: OK, well, I'm not terribly fussed by who registers them, but they need to be carefully defined, and it wasn't at all clear that the OpenSearch document did that. I think maybe we

Re: Feed History / Protocol overlap

2005-10-18 Thread Mark Nottingham
I'm confused; the current proposal (below) doesn't have that text in it; for example, the definition of previous is: A stable URI that, when dereferenced, returns a feed document containing a set of entries that sequentially precede those in the current document. This can be thought of

Re: Feed History / Protocol overlap

2005-10-18 Thread Robert Sayre
On 10/18/05, Mark Nottingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm confused; the current proposal (below) doesn't have that text in it; for example, the definition of previous is: OK, then I am confused. A stable URI that, when dereferenced, returns a feed document containing a set of entries

Re: Feed History / Protocol overlap

2005-10-18 Thread Thomas Broyer
Robert Sayre wrote: [about the previous link relation] 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? Er,

Re: Feed History / Protocol overlap

2005-10-18 Thread Mark Nottingham
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

Re: Feed History / Protocol overlap

2005-10-18 Thread Mark Nottingham
Please disambiguate original. On 18/10/2005, at 12:49 PM, James M Snell wrote: +1 on all of Roberts comments. While I'm ok with the current version, I was much happier with the original. Robert Sayre wrote: On 10/18/05, Mark Nottingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm confused; the

Re: Feed History / Protocol overlap

2005-10-18 Thread Robert Sayre
On 10/18/05, Mark Nottingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: Feed History / Protocol overlap

2005-10-18 Thread James M Snell
Antone Roundy wrote: On Oct 18, 2005, at 5:13 PM, Robert Sayre wrote: On 10/18/05, Mark Nottingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rel: next definition: A URI that points to the next feed in a series of feeds. For example, in a reverse-choronological series of feeds, the 'next' URI would point

Re: Feed History / Protocol overlap

2005-10-18 Thread Eric Scheid
On 19/10/05 5:38 AM, Robert Sayre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I already have code that uses next for this. Why do we want to change it? Why did you choose next? e.

Re: Feed History / Protocol overlap

2005-10-18 Thread Robert Sayre
On 10/18/05, Eric Scheid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19/10/05 5:38 AM, Robert Sayre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I already have code that uses next for this. Why do we want to change it? Why did you choose next? Because that is what's already been deployed and what my software uses. Robert

Re: Feed History / Protocol overlap

2005-10-18 Thread Eric Scheid
On 19/10/05 9:13 AM, Robert Sayre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rel: next definition: A URI that points to the next feed in a series of feeds. For example, in a reverse-choronological series of feeds, the 'next' URI would point deeper into the past. How will your code cope with a

Re: Feed History / Protocol overlap

2005-10-18 Thread Antone Roundy
On Oct 18, 2005, at 6:10 PM, Robert Sayre wrote: On 10/18/05, Antone Roundy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -3 to being that generic. That's a very large negative number. Can you explain how your version will me write software I otherwise couldn't? Anything larger than -2 is bogomips--the point I

Re: Feed History / Protocol overlap

2005-10-18 Thread Antone Roundy
Here's what this discussion makes me think of--RSS has a link element. That link was very generic, and has been variously used to link to what Atom calls link/@rel=alternate and link/ @rel=related, and perhaps even other things. Once we'd gained a little experience and discovered that