Re: [syndication] Re: Thoughts, questions, and issues.

[Rael Dornfest <rael@oreilly.com>]

Howdy,

On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Aaron Swartz wrote:

> ed@epicentric.com <ed@epicentric.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'm sure this has been answered already, but why do we need to be
> > backwards compatible with 0.9?  Didn't someone post here that only
> > like 11% of RSS feeds were in 0.9?
> 
> Yup, but the question is not how many feeds, but how many aggregators. This
> is why we need another survey, but of aggregators. I've asked on the RSS-DEV
> list, but I'll ask here too: anyone want to take up the job?

Meerkat[1], as I just posted understands RSS 0.9, 0.91, 1.0, and
scriptingNews formats.  I just checked[2] my.userland.com[3] for support
(via backward compatibility with 0.9) of an RSS 1.0 feed and it worked
like a charm!  Moreover, another huge producer of RSS, specializes in
scraping HTML to RSS, not taking in RSS feeds.

Rael

[1] http://meerkat.oreillynet.com
[2] http://aggregator.userland.com/register
[3] http://my.userland.com

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