“Design depends largely on constraints.” — Charles Eames
Tuesday, 3 September 2002
I see Dave is once again rev'ing RSS. I have reservations about the some of the new mechanisms (e.g., shoe-horning MIME into XML is a horrible idea) but I'm encouraged by hints that using XML Namespaces is being considered. IMHO the smart thing for Dave to do would be to start a version of "Minimal RSS"; maybe 0.95, that is just the very, very core markup (say, title, link and description, maybe one or two others for channel metadata) and put EVERYTHING else in modules (coordinating the release of them with the spec). This would produce a very stable core spec that would allow him to experiment with new facilities with impunity, whilst strengthening 0.9x's position; my impression is that most people use 1.0 because of Namepaces, not RDF.
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