Re: Continuing Work On The RSS Profile

"mauvecat.geo" <[email protected]> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:13:16 -0000
Newsgroups gmane.network.syndication.rss.support
Message-ID <[email protected]>
How about minor changes like recommending that multiple catigories on 
one item or channel be kept together?

--- In [email protected], Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@...> 
wrote:
>
> 
> On 23 Feb 2008, at 21:18, rcade wrote:
> 
> > --- In [email protected], Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@>
> > wrote:
> >> There was discussion in the time leading up to the vote on the 
1.0
> >> version of the profile about work for the second edition (which 
was
> >> referred to as "1.1") — as far as I can see nothing at all has
> >> happened about this (I expect due to time constraints).
> >
> > I think it would be a mistake to begin a new version of the 
profile so
> > soon. If people think it's a moving target, they'll be less 
likely to
> > implement the suggestions.
> 
> I don't think that's true — people are still implementing WCAG 1.0  
> despite 2.0 getting closer to being to a REC. Also, I think if it's 
on  
> a timescale of around a year (which I wouldn't be surprised if it 
took  
> to get another version done).
> 
> > We've been focusing on helping developers and publishers 
implement the
> > profile, and have had success in that area. Since it was 
published in
> > October, both Six Apart and Wordpress  have made changes to pass 
all
> > profile-related checks in the Feed Validator.
> 
> Those two probably account for a large amount of the RSS feeds out  
> there (though, admittedly, uptake of new versions is always a  
> challenge). I don't think uptake of the profile is an issue.
> 
> 
> --
> Geoffrey Sneddon
> <http://gsnedders.com/>
>



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