+1
James Holderness wrote:
I'm not a big fan of this either. The count can never be assured of
any accuracy so if I were to display something like this I end up
having to try and explain to my users why it says there are no replies
when in fact they there are 20.
Also, it forces excessive refreshes on the main feed because every
time someone replies to an entry, the feed for that entry has to be
updated even though it has no real changes. The server could try and
do something fancy, like not changing etags when it's only a reply
count update, but then it just means those counts are going to be even
more out of sync with reality.
As you say, if someone really wants to include a comment count they
can always use the slash module. I just don't think it's worth adding
to your proposal without a lot of warnings about the problems and
limitations.
Regards
James
James M Snell wrote:
Hmm.. not too sure. It's entirely possible, of course, but I'm not
sure that's it's worthwhile. The slash RSS 1.0 module already has an
element that can be used for this
(http://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/).
Byrne Reese wrote:
Any chance this specification could be extended to contain meta data
about the replies? Specifically, how many replies that may exist for a
given entry?
I would love a mechanism to be able to recreate:
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amet nisl. Morbi pretium ultrices sapien. Mauris pretium ultrices
odio. Duis mauris. Aliquam est.
Posted by: Byrne on Dec 15, 2005 Comments (10)
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Perhaps?
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