- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 22:01:14 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Martin Atkins wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: > > > > Then the browser wouldn't take these links and make them available in a > > "list of feeds" interface, which is the problem we are trying to solve. > > Why is it useful for a browser to make a list of a bunch of random feeds > that have no relation to one another or to the current page? Well they sort of have a relation -- they're feeds that the author thinks the user would find useful. This is something that happens already in the real world -- I'm just trying to make the spec distinguish "alternate" from "feed" when it comes to such feeds. > Currently the orange RSS icon means "Subscribe to this page". This is a > lot more useful (in my opinion) than it meaning "subscribe to some > random thing". No, it doesn't. It means "subscribe to something the author made available". Currently you have no way to know if it is the current page's feed or just a list of random related feeds. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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