Julian Reschke wrote:
If these interop problems are caused by broken clients (as opposed to broken specs such as with RSS), than making it more visible that these are broken seems to be a service to the community. IMHO, of course.
Sure, that's very noble. But while you're campaigning for XML rights in service to the community, your customers will probably all be flocking to your competitor who *is* producing readable feeds. And when you go out of business, GoogleReader et al will probably still not be able to render your feeds correctly.
It could even be argued that feed readers aren't actually required to support prefixed xhtml content, so they aren't really broken. RFC4287 says very little about the expected behaviour of feed readers. Choosing to only support certain forms of xhtml could well be a deliberate design decision.
Regards James
