James M Snell wrote:
-1. If there's anything we can learn from the mess that is RSS, at a certain point feed consumers should be allowed to say simply that a buggy feed is a buggy feed and that it falls on the responsibility of the feed publisher to get things right.
Well that's not really what I've learnt. I've learnt that there are a lot of broken feeds out there (Atom as well as RSS) and that users are less than impressed when you tell them it's not your fault and they should complain to someone else.
In the words of Mihai Parparita (Google Reader): "as anyone who has attempted to implement a feed parser knows, there are many subtle deviations from the spec that you have to handle if you want to have any hope of satisfying the needs of your users". [1]
I'm not saying that aggregators MUST support this particular buggy feed. I just got the impression that Geoffrey WANTED to support it. I think that's his choice to make.
Regards James [1] http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2005/12/xml-errors-in-feeds.html
