DW specific markup for latest posts feed

[zvi]

Title:
DW specific markup for latest posts feed

Area:
Posting, DW specific markup

Summary:
I'd like a tag which let me link to the latest posts feed, and let me link to a specific latest posts feed.

Description:
I think it would be useful to make it easier to link either to the latest posts feed or to a specific latest tag feed. I propose <latest> and <latest tag="example"> as the syntax, but I am in no way tied to any specific language.

Poll #2857 DW specific markup for latest posts feed

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 41

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Should be implemented as-is.
20 (48.8%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
9 (22.0%)

(I have no opinion)
12 (29.3%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[feathertail]

More tags like this would make posting really interesting.

They'd need some way to use them all easily though.

[rho]

I don't like this sort of thing, because hardly anyone ever remembers the exact syntax. You might know that the tag exists, but if you don't recall the details it's easier just to make the link manually rather than go and look up the details. Things like the cut and user tags work because they get used regularly enough for people to remember them and because there's no easy way to reproduce what they do manually. This sort of thing tends to do little other than adding unnecessary cruft and complexity.

[mark]

I am pretty against this. Adding custom HTML tags is not something I think we should be doing in cases where existing tags work just fine.

<latest tag="foo" /&g;t

vs

<a href="http://.../latest/?feed=foo" />

Really, you're going to need how to make A tags in order to link to other pages anyway (assuming someone doesn't use the RTE), so I don't see much of a reason to have a shortcut to it that is not really a lot simpler.

If anything, I might be okay with having a shortened URL format like we do for support requests and similar. I.e.,

<a href="dw://latest/foo" />

Eh.