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Danny Ayers wrote:
>Mass appeal would suggest 0.91 - some stats at :
>http://www.syndic8.com/stats.php?Section=rss#SubjectUsage
The Syndic8 list is not representative of the blogosphere
at large. It is a very small list of selected feeds. The
reality is that now that the "Troika" of
Typepad/MoveableType, Blogger, and LiveJournal have all
started producing Atom, it is "game over" for RSS. Atom feeds
far outnumber *all* of the feeds that Syndic8 tracks... What
we're watching is an end game during which the winner is
clearly obvious.
Having said that, it must be acknowledged that RSS will be
with us for a long time. (Much as COBOL still is.) What
people should do now is emit one form of RSS (unlike Danny, I
would suggest 2.0, in part because it is the simplest of the
bunch) and be *very* ready to emit Atom as soon as there is a
V1.0. (i.e. don't write code that you will have to rewrite in
a few weeks or months.)
It is completely useless to produce more than one form of
RSS since virtually every RSS reader will read virtually all
forms of RSS and most readers throw away any data that can't
be mapped to RSS V2.0 as the lowest common denominator. If
you produce multiple flavors of RSS then all you are doing is
making life difficult for other people without providing them
any benefit. You're either forcing them to make a meaningless
choice or you are forcing confusion as they download each of
your feeds instead of just one.
No one should issue more than one flavor of RSS. Some
people think it is "cool" to do so, but the reality is that
it just causes nuisance for everyone.
bob wyman
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