Wednesday, May 3, 2006, 6:48:55 AM, Mark Nottingham wrote:
> If you use URIs like > http://example.com/feed?start=5&num=10 > changing the directionality of "next" and "previous" will not make > what you're doing compatible with feed history. > Such URIs have a much more fundamental problem -- they don't refer to > a stable set of entries, and therefore only act as a snapshot of the > *current* feed, chopped up into chunks. If the feed changes between > accesses, the client will be in an inconsistent state. The client > also has to walk through all of the pages every time it fetches the > feed; it can't cache them -- which is a primary requirement for feed > history. I think it would be worth recommending the use of stable URIs in the draft. -- Dave
