- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 07:02:22 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Sam Ruby <rubys@us.ibm.com>
- Cc: "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Sam Ruby wrote: > > > > Oh, indeed. However, there is one thing that may mitigate that and > > make our life a lot easier here -- feeds generally are not visited > > directly, they're found in rel=feed and rel=alternate links on HTML > > pages. So this might be a non-issue basically. > > I wish I could say that that is my experience. Within the past week > alone, I had somebody -- arguably someone whom to all evidence is > reasonably technically astute -- ask me if I simply didn't do RSS as he > didn't see any links to a feed on my page: > > http://intertwingly.net/blog/2007/08/09/Erlang-First-Impressions#c1187179911 > > I know that may seem like an isolated incident, but the fact that the > overwhelming number of sites seem to feel compelled to add a direct and > visible link to feeds (ones that arguably could, but rarely do at the > present time, include a rel=feed attribute) is an indicator that > "generally are not visited directly" is a bit of an overstatement. Yeah, fair point. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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