Re: Tombstones

["A. Pagaltzis" <pagaltzis@xxxxxx>]

* James Holderness <j4_james@xxxxxxxxxxx> [2007-12-19 17:00]:
> Sure you could do that, but it would be completely useless to a
> typical feed reader, which is all I care about (and I thought
> that was Brian's interest too).

Socialtext produces such feeds. I complained that they’re pretty
useless in Liferea and was told that they work great in
NetNewsWire, which all of the devs use, which is why no one felt
a pressing need to provide diff feeds.

Some feed readers are more typical than others.

> What would be useful (to a feed reader) is the kind of feed
> that Wikipedia already produces. That does a great job of
> representing wiki history and it doesn't require tombstones of
> any kind.

Ever subscribe the history of a page that got merged or renamed?
I wouldn’t say it does a great job, exactly. It conveys the
minimum information necessary to be useful to clients without
local change tracking and not really anything more.

> I just don't see why we have to try and share the same protocol
> if it means making my life more difficult.

The newer proposal uses attribute-less child elements where the
old one used attributes. I don’t see how that possibly makes your
life more difficult.

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>