[whatwg] Calendar subscription as a feed?
Dan Mosedale
dmose at mozilla.org
Fri Feb 8 19:19:32 PST 2008
Dan Mosedale wrote:
> One nice property of the webcal: URI scheme is that any user-agent can
> reasonably infer the intended use (which is likely to carry the
> semantic that the URI will be around for a longer period of time)
> simply from the URI. So this URI can simply be included in any sort
> document (mail message, text file) without losing that bit of
> information. By itself, rel="feed" doesn't provide this.
I just skimmed the slightly (2006) Link header draft after noticing Ian
mentioning it in a recent thread here, and if that were to make it back
into HTTP, it would seem to solve this information loss bit nicely.
Dan
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