Robert Sayre wrote:
> Standardization as "brand war". Interesting. I don't think anyone
> will be surprised if Microsoft tries to squash an IETF spec in
> favor of some ad-hoc thing they can control.
I don't believe that it is appropriate to trash Microsoft, or any
other vendor, in this fashion in this forum. It does not contribute to our
goal of having a reasoned discussion of the issues.
As far as Dare's arguments go, he says: "I'm saying that at present
the Atom adds fragmentation to the world of XML syndication for little or no
benefit." Well, I can assure you that I do see great benefit from Atom over
RSS today. Our experience is that Atom feeds are much cleaner, easier to
parse, and much more consistent in encoding from site to site than RSS feeds
are. Reading RSS feeds is more of an art than a science. There are so many
flavors of RSS that it's hard to claim that the code you need to read RSS is
a "parser" -- it is more like a heuristic hint processor. i.e. A fancy
guessing machine...
bob wyman
