Re: Feeds MUST have alternate links?

[Asbjørn Ulsberg <asbjorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:03:20 -0400, Norman Walsh <ndw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Why must I produce an alternate representation of the feed?

I would like to repeat that question. I have no answer for it, at least. I  
will use Atom in _many_ scenarios where there aren't any alternative  
representation for either the feed or the entries. Why should I have to  
create an HTML page no one on the planet will request just to accomodate  
the specification?

> I have a practical reason for asking. Someone asked me to produce a
> feed for all the photographs on norman.walsh.name. I can do that, but
> I'm not going to produce an HTML page that is an alternate
> representation of that feed. I suppose I could, but I'd rather not and
> I don't see why I should.

+1.

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