Re: Feeds MUST have alternate links?

[Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@xxxxxxx>]

* Tim Bray wrote:
>I think Asbjørn and others have presented plausible cases for feeds you 
>might create where there's not an instantly-obvious choice for the 
>"alternate" link.  Still, I think we should require them; at least you 
>can point to an HTML page somewhere with a human-readable description 
>saying "This feed describes variations in the readings from the 
>potentiometer X328951 in rack 211-B" or something.

Users are going to get disappointed if such a document is sold to them
as an alternate HTML representation of the feed and think twice about
following such a link next time. This is very much like <img alt="*"
...> versus <img alt="rotating circle with fancy blue border" ...>.