- From: Rob Sanderson via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2016 15:41:29 +0000
- To: public-annotation@w3.org
> typically this is an (implementation specific) request parameter Typically, but not in this case. >From the protocol spec, section 4.2: > The number of IRIs or Annotation descriptions included on each page is at the server's discretion, and may be inconsistent between pages. We started off with the typical offset/limit pattern but decided against it for the following reasons: * It's much harder to cache when every client requests different page sizes * It's impossible to implement as a static set of files on disk * The size of annotations can vary wildly, particularly if the server doesn't return all of the information for an annotation in the page response. Guessing how many to retrieve requires knowledge of the dataset, which is not feasible to obtain. * It's trivial to either request pages until the number the client wants is reached (if per page size is less than desired), or to ignore annotations if the page size is greater than the number wanted. So ... as this has been discussed, unless there is some new information that makes the current approach un-implementable (which would be strange, considering there are implementations), or some significant benefit that was overlooked in the original discussion, I propose close wontfix. -- GitHub Notification of comment by azaroth42 Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/web-annotation/issues/371#issuecomment-257601090 using your GitHub account
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