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10:41AM CST January 10, 2005 | Comments [6]

The ten most recent comments across all entries are now available in an Atom feed. This is primarily for me, so that I can avoid logging into my CMS a bajillion times each day.

Some notes:

I'm sort of lying about feed/link. Atom requires a feed-level link with rel="alternate", which the spec says should point to an alternate version of the contents of the feed. The thing is, I don't publish a list of recent comments in any other format, so I'm forced to fib and point to something largely unrelated to the feed's contents. I chose this site's front page.

Why does Atom keep forcing me to lie?
Commentors' URLs are not included in the feed. Atom URLs have to actually be URIs -- no lying here -- and, while my system rejects malicious code, it makes no effort to ensure that what you've supplied in the URL field is really an URL. You could make, "Screw you, I'm not including an URL" your URL, and I wouldn't mind; but the Feed Validator would. (It wouldn't be very funny, anyway.) So, no URLs for now.

#1 | 04:45PM UTC January 11, 2005 | Anne: Your source says ISO-8859-1 and your server claims UTF-8. Certainly, someone is lying here! :-)
#2 | 04:46PM UTC January 11, 2005 | Anne: Furthermore, on the comment preview page. Should I not be part of #comments, instead of #entries?
#3 | 06:08PM UTC January 11, 2005 | Robert Sayre: Hey, The newer versions of the spec allow you to remove the link if you include atom:content.
#4 | 11:17PM UTC January 11, 2005 | Wayne: Fixed and fixed, Anne. Thanks for keeping me on my toes.

What am I missing, Robert? I'm using atom:content and the latest version of Atom, but the validator still complains when I remove the link element.
#5 | 05:59PM UTC February 23, 2005 | Anne: Wayne, it is fixed in the versions that are not to be used.
#6 | 05:00AM UTC April 01, 2005 | Alex: I was interested in Atom feed usage too. But as I can see from your post this feed requires some restrictions.