Re: FYI: Making Atom Happen

[Dare Obasanjo <kpako@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Steve Jenson <sjenson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Of course, but you eventually give up on the old
> cruft and put
> something new together. Consider HTML vs. XHTML and
> new 
> versions of Python.

:) 

Except that besides markup geeks no one cares about
XHTML. Your point is valid but the question is whether
RSS is at the point where you give up on the old cruft
instead of fixing it, I don't see this as being the
case.  

> How much poking is required to find giant holes in
> RSS? Not 
> very many. 

Give me examples, I'm an aggregator author so I'm sure
I should be familiar with them. 

> Atom will eventually break down under new
> usage 
> scenarios that haven't been thought about and with
> enough 
> scrutiny.  What can we do about that? We work hard
> to prolong
> that eventuality and we work hard when those holes
> are found.

So what stops this from being the case with RSS. 
 

> When Atom was proposed, RSS was cemented as 
> Finished by it's author. There was a Roadmap for 
> respectful innovation given and Atom followed that.

That was then this is now. The RSS spec is under a CC
licence and anyone can publish their own version
derived from it. What technical reasons are there for
not doing so? 


> I honestly don't consider Atom, the syndication
> format, to 
> be that fun. It's interesting, to be sure, but I
> really would 
> have preferred if this had been done better in RSS
> 2.0. 
> There are lots of new, fun stuff, to spend my time
> on than 
> rehashing the same old, tired, syndication battles.
> 
> The API, though, has incredible potential and was
> the original
> reason that I became interested in Atom, the
> syndication format.

I echo your sentiments here. 

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