Re: atom:modified (was Re: Fetch me an author. Now, fetch me another author.)

2005-05-22 Thread Roger B.
> Can you tell me, in those "unusual cases" when there is "difficulty > in determining which instance came last," what the heck am I supposed to do > if the users expect to always see the "most recent" instance? Bob: The same thing you'd do if you had two entries with matching ids and mod

RE: atom:modified (was Re: Fetch me an author. Now, fetch me another author.)

2005-05-21 Thread Bob Wyman
Antone Roundy wrote: > Only in the unusual cases will there be any difficulty in determining > which instance came last. "Unusual" is a relative term... I read over 10 million feeds every day, many of them multiple times each day. I intend to read every public feed that gets created. Thus,

Re: atom:modified (was Re: Fetch me an author. Now, fetch me another author.)

2005-05-21 Thread Antone Roundy
On Saturday, May 21, 2005, at 09:20 PM, Bob Wyman wrote: Antone Roundy wrote: Unless the "need" for this can be shown, and it can be shown that an extension can't take care of it, I'm -1 on atom:modified. The need is simple and I've stated it dozens of times... ...but is it a need or

RE: atom:modified (was Re: Fetch me an author. Now, fetch me another author.)

2005-05-21 Thread Bob Wyman
Antone Roundy wrote: > Unless the "need" for this can be shown, and it can be shown that > an extension can't take care of it, I'm -1 on atom:modified. The need is simple and I've stated it dozens of times... Given two non-identical entries that share the same atom:id and the same atom:upd