Re: Approaches to show/performance schedule information in RSS

I suggested [1] that a module that talked about the feed ordering, 
update practices, etc. might be a good thing; is there any interest in 
that yet?


1. http://www.mnot.net/rss/channel.html


On Apr 26, 2004, at 12:11 PM, Danny Ayers wrote:

> Mark Fletcher wrote:
>
>> There are no guarantees about how your data will be displayed. 
>> Different
>> aggregators do different things. Bloglines, for example, displays 
>> items
>> in date order, and allows the user to decide whether to show newest
>> first or oldest first. When we detect a change in an item, we update 
>> the
>> date on that item to when we received the change. One of the ideas of
>> aggregation is to let the user control how they view the content.
>>
>>
>>
>>
> Quite.
>
> The best you can do, which probably equates to best practices, is be as
> specific, descriptive and accurate as possible. At this point in time
> that probably means using RSS 1.0 along with extensions as needed. 
> There
> is no guarantee that all end users will support these, but some will,
> and it at least offers the /potential/ for richer feeds with more 
> useful
> information.
>
> Regarding the order, the formats have different interpretations - RSS
> 1.0 does provide an explicit order (but doesn't really say what the
> significance of it is) and if I remember correctly the RSS 2.0 spec 
> says
> absolutely nothing about order. So it's hardly surprising that 
> different
> implementations work differently.
>
> The Atom project should get this sorted out more usefully (it's already
> been discussed at length) but it will be a few months at least before
> that will be ready for widespread adoption.
>
> Cheers,
> Danny.
>
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