On Mar 24, 2006, at 12:17 PM, Phil Haack wrote:
I can envision something similar with Microformats. Suppose I
point my
brand spanking new Microformats enabled RSS Bandit towards
http://glazkov.com/ and it pops up a list of various Microformats
on that
page. Wonderful!
The bummer is that I may miss out on your Down Home Alabama/Russian
Fusion
Cuisine Recipes which just happen to be on another page. Why deny
the world
a grits and salted herring dish?
Because feed auto-discovery links are in the content, not the headers
of HTTP responses, aggregators have to download the entire page, and
most aggregators search first for <link type="alternate" ...> tags,
and second for something like <a href="something.rss">RSS</a>. The
link tag makes more sense here because people don't read feeds
directly, so it doesn't make a lot of sense to provide human-readable
<a> links to feeds. But people *do* read microformat content
directly, so if it's related to the current page, it should be linked
from the current page, and any human or machine looking site-wide for
microformat content (or anything else) should follow links throughout
the site.
Peace,
Scott
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