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Wednesday, July 23, 2003Happiness is a new RSS application from Wired News
They wanted to include some information in their feed that isn't defined by the RSS spec, so they created an extension, also known as module or namespace, with information about the search results. An aggregator that was tuned to work with Wired search results could use the extra info, but the feed will still work with aggregators that don't know about their namespace (like all the ones out there now). Modularity. Coolness. Marc Canter asked me to keep stressing this point. He was right. People should know that RSS is extensible. # Posted on 7/23/03; 3:39:45 PM - David Galbraith: (Not)Atom and RSSDavid Galbraith: "From a market perspective, surely it would be better if Atom worked around a core of RSS and if need be then the RSS 2.0 core should be amended to include necessary things like the encoding type of content." # Posted on 7/23/03; 9:35:24 PM - |