John Panzer wrote:
Does anyone know of any issues with placing Yahoo! Media RSS extensions (which seem to fit the requirments for Atom extensions to me) inside an Atom feed? Secondarily, do feed readers in general recognize MRSS inside either Atom or RSS? Looking for field experience/implementor intentions here.
To the best of my knowledge, feed readers don't even recognize MRSS inside RSS feeds. It probably depends what features of the spec you're intending to use, but back when I was testing enclosure support I couldn't find a single feed reader that recognised MRSS media:content elements (having tested more than 20).
Add to that the fact that the spec is buggy, so the feeds that do use it often aren't compatible with each other; and most of what MRSS offers can already be achieved quite adequately using existing RSS/Atom elements (with the added bonus that feed readers will actually see the data). IMHO it's probably not worth bothering with.
That said, I know there are feed libraries that support it to some extent (in RSS at least) so there must be some people using it.
Regards James
