[microformats-discuss] Microformat to denote the date of the last page modfication

Tue Aug 16 05:58:15 PDT 2005

And also some may want to differentiate between the logical content of 
the page being changed and (for example) a different ad or a change in 
the a set of sidebar links.

There have been some issues with RSS feeds of this nature where ads are 
being rotated through entries, or in the case of Microsoft, they moved 
the location of where some videos were cached.

Regards, etc...
David
http://www.blogmatrix.com

Brian Suda wrote:
> another thing that has not been mentioned yet, is that dynamic pages
> might have new content from a database, but the actual file timestamp
> would not have changed since the last time the file was opened and
> saved by an external editor. Even though the content being pulled has
> a newer modified date.
> 
> So there is another example where timestamps from the Server Headers
> and actual content could differ.
> 
> -brian
> 
> On 8/16/05, Robert Bachmann <rbach at rbach.priv.at> wrote:
> 
>>Andreas Haugstrup wrote:
>>
>>>On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 21:15:15 +0200, Robert Bachmann
>>><rbach at rbach.priv.at>  wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I don't think so because the HTTP Last-Modified header describes when
>>>>_the file_ was last modified, <abbr class="page-last-modified">
>>>>describes when the last edit of _the page content_ happened.
>>>
>>>Isn't the difference the same?
>>
>>I'll try to provide a better example.
>>
>>This shall be our orginal page:
>><!DOCTYPE ...>
>><html>
>> <head>
>> <title>Some article</title>
>> <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" />
>> </head>
>> <body>
>> <h1>Some article</h1>
>> <p>...</p>
>> <p>...</p>
>> <p>...</p>
>> <p style="color:red">
>> <strong>Do not</strong> try this at home!
>> </p>
>> <p>
>> Last update:
>> <abbr class="page-last-modified" title="20050102">2 Jan 2005</abbr>
>> </p>
>></body>
>></html>
>>
>>Now we make a cosmetical change.
>>We add
>> p.warning {color: red; }
>>to style.css and change our HTML file to:
>>
>><!DOCTYPE ...>
>><html>
>> <head>
>> <title>Some article</title>
>> <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" />
>> </head>
>> <body>
>> <h1>Some article</h1>
>> <p>...</p>
>> <p>...</p>
>> <p>...</p>
>> <p class="warning"> <!-- <<< -->
>> <strong>Do not</strong> try this at home!
>> </p>
>> <p>
>> Last update:
>> <abbr class="page-last-modified" title="20050102">2 Jan 2005</abbr>
>> </p>
>></body>
>></html>
>>
>>Althought we updated the file we did not change the visble content,
>>i.e: no user would bother the re-read the article because there is
>>no visible change.
>>Therfore we didn't change the date of <abbr class="page-last-modified" ...
>>
>>I hope that the above example brings some clarity.
>>
>>Additionaly this microformat has the benefit that it can
>>be used to denote the last modifcation of an entry/item, e.g:
>>
>><div class="some-microformat-container">
>>Content ...
>><p class="fineprint">Last updated:
>><abbr class="last-modified" title="...">...</abbr>
>></p>
>></div>
>>
>>Robert
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