Re: Comments Draft

[Eric Scheid <eric.scheid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/8/05 7:48 PM, "A. Pagaltzis" <pagaltzis@xxxxxx> wrote:

>>     <link rel="in-reply-to"
>>           href="http://www.example.com/atom";
>>           type="application/atom+xml"
>>           thread:idref="urn:foo:1" />
>> 
>> this way processors that have a basic understanding of what a
>> <link> is can still do something useful.
> 
> No, that requires entries to be located in a feed available at a
> dereferencable URI because @href is not optional. So it would
> preclude replying to feeds delivered via SMTP, XMPP or other
> protocols that donšt work like that.

Ah dammit, you're right. There was blood spilled to allow entries to not be
required to have an alternate too, so we can't even point at that.

e.