RE: [syndication] RSS 0.91 - skips & optional stuff

[Rael Dornfest <rael@oreilly.com>]

Howdy,

On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, David Galbraith wrote:

> > Coool, now I understand. It's a special need for Moreover. They could put
> > the URL of the story in the RSS file, but they'd have no way of tracking
> > click-throughs. I said it in a previous msg, I think the next step is for
> > Moreover to carefully write a spec as a proposal and put it on a
> > website and
> > revise it in response to feedback and additional ideas. Once specified, it
> > would be easy to write guidelines for aggregators. Dave
> 
> Sure, will do.
> However I certainly don't want to confuse things - as Rael says based upon
> Ian Davis' proposal maybe this can go as an add-in module to an RSS spec.

After you put something together, I'd certainly be glad to "modularize" it
so that we can all compare and contrast the two side by side.

> I don't see how it's just Moreover who need this however, since in an
> environment where RSS becomes the output of choice, the ability to isolate
> portions from a channel and place them into another at the item level,
> necessitates this.

Aggregators (Moreover, Userland, Meerkat, et al) and bloggers alike need
aspects of this class of functionality.

Rael

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