- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:15:54 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Mark Baker wrote: > > What about documenting that some agents make that assumption, but not > prescribing that all agents must do so? The idea underlying the work here is to foster interoperability, not document the lack of interoperability, so that isn't really an option. > And to answer your other question, the proposed new media type for Atom > entry documents would only solve the problem for entries. It wouldn't > solve them for the MHTML-like Atom document I described, nor any other > non-feed use of Atom... of which there most likely will be many in the > future. If such a solution were used as precedent for solving the > problem for those uses of Atom, it would mean a new media type for each > use; a media type per link type, in fact. Ouch! So no, I'm not a fan > 8-) Fair enough. I'm not sure what a good solution would be then. Specifying rel="alternate" without specifying the type="" when you're using Atom as a non-feed format seems like the only workable one. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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