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October 07, 2005

A slight detour

Posted by bopuc at October 7, 2005 01:32 AM

RSS et al are merely a temporary detour, a quick outgrowth which we needed to bring us back to the Web.

Consider this: syndicated items do not have URIs for their "locations" in the feed. They always point back to the web/html version. Put philosophically, they don't exist.

I do hope XHTML 2.0 (hah! somehow ironic in current context) is resolved and pushed out and implemented properly.

(When CSS2 was released in 1998 - yes 1998 - everyone screamed and howled about how complex and unmanageable it was... Now web-designers couldn't live without it and are clamoring for CSS3 support...)

Remember: only YOU can prevent forest fires.

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> RSS et al are merely a temporary detour

You're just pissed now that MS is on board... :)

Posted by: Ed Bilodeau at October 7, 2005 10:33 PM

MS is on board?
I'm not pissed, at all. I have no emotional interest in any of this.

I am but a small boy sitting by the river watching it all go by. Sping summer fall and winter. And spring again...

;)

Posted by: Boris at October 7, 2005 11:07 PM