On 22/10/05 1:33 AM, "A. Pagaltzis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> First, rel="self" is going to be implemented by most everything > that groks Atom 1.0 in order to support one-click subscription, > if applicable, right? Whereas this new relationship might not > find such wide-spread support. I believe we're in a moment of grace right now and we could, with a bit of public advocacy, get 'subscribe' established and supported for one-click subscription. > For these two (similar) reasons I think it might be wise to keep > rel="self" in the role that this new rel="subscribe" thing is > supposed to fulfill, and invent a new relationship that can point > to the canonical location of the archive feed document. This occurred to me too, but I had my reservations about it. http://www.imc.org/atom-syntax/mail-archive/msg17284.html where I wrote: Fortunately, the link relation 'self' was defined in such a woolly way we could get away with re-purposing it. A few articles here or there, a bit of blog chatter, and the arrival of the fabled Developers Guide and we'd be set. I'd think this would be favourable to having to come up with a different pair of relations, like 'self' = what you subscribe to, may not look anything like the chunk in front of you 'this-chunk' = link to what you are looking at, not to be confused with 'self' e.