Mr Safe is Back
February 20, 2006
Sam Ruby with a great entry about Atom vs. RSS. I’m by no means an expert, but out of a weird interest in this real-world soap opera, I have followed the RSS/funky-RSS/Pie/Echo/Atom developments as an outside observer for the entire time. Based on this, my advice is: If you are considering using RSS, don’t; use Atom instead.
Maybe the Atom folks should just have called their format RSS 3.0 …
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The RSS 2.0 spec dictates that any derivatives of the spec should not be named “RSS”.
Posted by: James Snell at February 20, 2006 11:51 PM | link
I know — but that didn’t stop the RSS 3.0 weirdo. AFAIK, Dave Winer tried, but never actually did trademark the acronym. And he’s pissed off anyway …
Posted by: Stefan Tilkov at February 21, 2006 7:31 AM | link