On Dec 7, 2006, at 7:43 AM, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
It seems pointless for atom:link to have a type attribute at all then. You should be able to decide anything you need to decide by GETting the resource (and sometimes parsing it). Why did we add such a useless feature to the spec?
I am pretty sure it wasn't added for being able to tell people: "Look, at the other end of this link is a feed".
Seriously: how many feed readers are out there that base the decision wheter something is subscribeable on the type attribute of a link rather then on the link type?
As an analogy: HTML browsers look for stylesheets where it says <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/style.css" /> and not <link rel="alternate" type="text/css" href="/style.css" /> Eh? Jan
Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
