Re: Top 10 Reasons Why RSS Rules

On 17 Dec 2003, at 02:25, Mark Fletcher wrote:

> Roger B. wrote:
>
>> They're worth solving, and are actually easily solved with a profile 
>> like
>> RSS 2.0 for Aggregators. (RSS2A)
>>
>> If Brent, Dare, Luke, the Newzcrawler team, Nick Bradbury, and so on 
>> will
>> just lock themselves in a virtual room and decide what they expect to 
>> see in
>> each RSS 2.0 element, I will rewrite my code to accomodate them. So 
>> will
>> lots of other folks. We need the aggregator folks to step up and take 
>> the
>> debate away from people whose opinions don't really matter all that 
>> much in
>> the first place, self included.
>>
>>
>>
> Bloglines will be supporting the Atom format. We don't have a choice.
> Blogger will only be publishing Atom feeds for their blogs.

Is that the API, or the feed format? Beware here: the two are very very 
different. Blogger supporting the API is one thing; publishing all of 
their blogs in the Atom syndication format is quite another.