On May 21, 2005, at 8:10 PM, Bob Wyman wrote:
It seems like you are concerned that people who see a change in
your
feed will re-fetch the HTML? If this is your concern, then do as
you do now
and don't refresh the feed unless you have a change that warrants
an update
to atom:updated.
No. As a matter of policy, my feed contains the most recent 20
posts. However, if one of those posts is a long post and only the
summary is provided, when I make a change, I make a conscious
decision whether it's sufficient that I want newsreaders to re-fetch
it, and if so I change the datestamp, otherwise not.
This is totally up to you and support for atom:modified
wouldn't change that.
Yes, atom:modified would require that I update the date, and have the
entry fetched another ten thousand times, even if I made a change
that struck me as trivial. Since I'm a good citizen about specs, I
would do this wasteful thing. Others would just ignore it. -Tim
