"Managing Feed State" was a placeholder I put in the original Atom
spec draft <http://www.mnot.net/drafts/draft-nottingham-atom-
format-00.html#rfc.section.4> for just this kind of discussion. The
WG couldn't come to a consensus on a mechanism (my proposal was
<http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/PaceFeedState>), so we removed
that section (earlier this year, IIRC).
On 09/10/2005, at 1:39 AM, James Holderness wrote:
Following up on the idea of using atom:link instead of fh:prev, I
recently came across an old article by Mark Pilgrim on XML.com
(http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/06/16/dive.html) in which he
discusses the atom:link element and the various rel attributes it
supports. He specifically brings up the issue of feed history and
using next and prev to link archives together.
It sounded to me as if he was talking about an existing feature in
the spec - it wasn't like he was proposing it as a new idea. So was
this something that used to be part of an old version of the spec
that was later removed? Or was this an early proposal that was
never accepted into the spec?
Also of interest: there's a link from that article to his archives
on diveintomark.org which actually include next and prev links in
the feed. I'm almost inclined to add support for that just so I can
access those old posts. There used to be some excellent articles on
his site.
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