The Value of RSS

re: The Value of RSS

Carty Castaldi — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 06:41:00 GMT

"As a user I want less formats not more"

I want *fewer* formats ...

re: The Value of RSS

Michael Koziarski — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 06:41:00 GMT

Are there really any readers out there that don't support Atom just as well as RSS? Are there any platforms where RSS support is available but Atom support isn't?

Given the current level of support (wide) for atom, how is an RSS feed with some custom namespace any easier to deal with than an atom feed?

re: The Value of RSS

phil jones — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:20:00 GMT

"Are there really any readers out there that don't support Atom just as well as RSS? Are there any platforms where RSS support is available but Atom support isn't? "

http://www.oddmuse.org/cgi-bin/wiki/Comments_on_Including_RSS_Feeds

re: The Value of RSS

Danny — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 12:15:00 GMT

Didn't I post a long comment here the other day? Ah well.

Is RSS Bandit "plain old RSS reader"? All the half-decent aggregators I've seen have no trouble with Atom.

I also said that basically that there isn't much difference between RSS extensions and separate formats - the apps still need totally new handling. And that as a user I didn't care about formats, but as a developer would prefer fewer.

If you really want fewer data interchange formats, wouldn't the logical choice be RDF/XML? (Such as RSS 1.0). That way you could get the total number virtually down to one.

re: The Value of RSS

Ross — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:13:00 GMT

Michael, because Atom <B>still</B> isn't finished?

Did RSS take this long to develop once the problem domain was known?

re: The Value of RSS

Suzan Foster — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:24:00 GMT

USENET in an aggregator? Now that really sounds like a topsy-turvey world. Bringing a thread back to just one posting, and where are the follow-up's? Or do we subscribe to each thread of interest? And how the hell do you post? Sorry, but there are perfectly good programs for handeling news which don't need a large mallot to make them fit. Some even do aggregation (separately)!

re: The Value of RSS

Michael Koziarski — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 01:04:00 GMT

Ross,

I'm sorry, I don't see the relevance of your comment to mine?

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