On 15 Dec 2006, at 12:47, David Powell wrote:
An example would be an HTML page with rel="alternative" links pointing to a feed and an Atom Entry document. This seems quite a reasonable use-case, yet if we don't create a new MIME type, then I'd expect that all current feed reader implementations would incorrectly detect the entry document to be a feed, which would be very confusing for the user if they select the entry document, and their feed reader attempts to subscribe to the entry document. Which would either work, and they would get subscribed to a feed that doesn't update, or they'd get an error.
This is my real issue with just using a MIME type parameter - feed readers normally just ignore an unknown MIME type parameter, so we'd have the same issue (entry documents showing up with feed documents). Creating a MIME type would get around this issue - I think this is really just a time when we have to step back and look at where we are, and choose what to do in this situation, regardless of what is technically correct.
- Geoffrey Sneddon
