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I know someone has to have suggested this in the past, but if so, I missed it... what might happen if RSS proponents simply adopted the most sought-after Atom ideas (the <modified> date and the more carefully thought out content model, for example) and inserted them into RSS 2.0 feeds with namespaces?
(Here's an an RSS+Atom feed using live data.)
Poof! Backwards compatibility (the feed is still a valid RSS 2.0 feed) with the added goodies of Atom. Dave might find it funky, but in the grand scheme, isn't a funky bridge between formats a whole lot nicer than completely parallel development paths? Things might not be quite as simple for copy-n-paste developers, but at least we'll all be moving in the same direction, and users won't face confusion and breakage.
Isn't that the most important thing?
02-15-2004 05:50:49PM - Permalink - Post Reply - Read Comments [4] category: Staff
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