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I think v2 is trying to solve a problem it shouldn't have to solve. If the NYT made available previous (published!) revisions of their content, there would be n

I think v2 is trying to solve a problem it shouldn't have to solve. If the NYT made available previous (published!) revisions of their content, there would be no need to assign paragraphs with special IDs or the like. You'd simply say, "get me p2 for the story as it was on Jan 11 15:33". When you link to a specific piece of content, it's in the hopes that people will read or see the same thing you saw when you made the link. You don't want to be talking about different things, so revision-awareness would actually make more sense overall.

donohoe 16y ago
Absolutely. But is that going to happen? No. Why? Many reasons come from an editorial perspective (which I'm not knowledgeable enough to get into - but a simple one is: corrections), however the big one is also technical: Providing previous revisions is not trivial feature. It would be a huge effort. There is no way to justify it from the perspective of deep-linking.
omouse 16y ago
Except that would be another hack for the Web. As I said in another comment here, Ted Nelson's Xanadu project already figured this stuff out, we just have to employ some hacks on the Web to make it work ;/