Re: Offering Multiple Feed Formats

* rcade <[email protected]> [2008-03-27 15:30]:
> Should the RSS Advisory Board recommend that feed publishers
> offer their feeds in one format only, whether they choose Atom,
> RSS 1.0 or RSS 2.0 as that format?

At the very least, it should be strongly recommended that if a
feed is offered in multiple formats, the `title` attributes of
all the autodiscovery links should be identical.

I know that Firefox will then consider them to be identical and
will make the choice of format on behalf of the user. It has been
too long for me to remember what other software acts the same
way, but it was a public discussion a long while ago and I know
that Firefox is not the only client that acts like that.

Client implementors should also be instructed to follow this
behaviour.

Of course, picking a single format is still the best course. That
is clearly not a technical recommendation, however. Interop is
not at stake, so it can only be informal advice. Including it as
such would be fine, and useful.

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>

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