RE: Re[2]: [syndication] Re: [rss] [2000-05-11] RSSx "Straw-Man" (repost)

[Eugene Pervago <pervago@bigfoot.com>]

I'm neither Dave nor Rael but I have a few problems with current spec:
	1. (see discussion "introduction and few ideas" on RSS list)
	   A way of providing links to alternative content (e.g. WML) in RSS.
	   For example, a news site may have WAP version but they have no
	   easy way to say it to aggregator. There are ways (hacks I would say)
	   such as having a separate RSS file with "[wap]" in the name or something
	   like that but I don't think that's good long-term solution.
	2. Some sort of way to providing additional information in a way that won't
	   break any parser already parsing "RSSX" correctly (e.g. Motley Fool
	   stock quotes).
It would also be nice to see some sort of interactive RSS with possibility
of
customisation of module by the user on aggregator side (e.g. customising
news section(s)
that gets displayed by RSS without creating 250 separate channels).

Eugene Pervago

> -----Original Message-----
> From: iand@internetalchemy.org [mailto:iand@internetalchemy.org]
> Sent: Miércoles, 07 de Junio de 2000 10:53 a.m.
> To: syndication@egroups.com
> Subject: Re[2]: [syndication] Re: [rss] [2000-05-11] RSSx "Straw-Man"
> (repost)
>
>
> Tuesday, June 06, 2000, 7:22:13 PM, Rael wrote:
>
> > I'm sorry we missed eachother in Amsterdam.  I look forward,
> therefore, to
> > taking a gander at what you'd like to put into the next
> generation of RSS.
> > I'm glad to see some forward momentum building and look forward
> to an RSS
> > that meets at the very least most of our needs most of the time.
>
> Defining new specifications is very hard to do because no one has
> publicly stated what they'd like RSS to be capable of. Do people want
> to us it to syndicate other forms of content aside from news
> headlines? Do people want to use it to describe the structure of
> their sites along the lines of their original intent of the format?
>
> Dave, Rael, what problems do you need RSS to solve?
>
> Ian
>
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