Re: [syndication] Re: A newbies opinion (if I still qualify!)

["Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>]

According to this logic, if I wanted to make an apple pie I should call it
RSS-Apple Pie, because someone might prefer to eat some apple pie instead of
syndicating their web content in RSS.

OPML is not an alternative to RSS. It's worth looking at, imho, for its own
value, one click away.

Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Shaw" <yahoo@coveryourasp.com>
To: <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 7:32 AM
Subject: [syndication] Re: A newbies opinion (if I still qualify!)


> > would it have made your job more difficult if the three outstanding
> formats called "RSS" had different names, and pointed to each other?
>
> Well, I think it would. "RSS-basic" and "RSS-extensible" tell
> developers to look at RSS-basic first (Sorry RSS-dev if that's not
> what you want) and if it satisfies their needs, fine (which for the
> majority it probably will).
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> I would have been lacking something, so I'd then look at RSS-
> extensible. Now, admittedly, that's what happened anyway, because
> like it or not the 0.9x moniker implies "more basic" than 1.0.
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> Look at the situation this morning - PRISM and OPML have both been
> brought up. I haven't heard of either, and from the names I have no
> idea which is more suitable or should be looked at first.
>
> Once anyone buys into a "standard" they feel safe in their decision -
> they did the "right thing". So if I'd got an email saying "why aren't
> you using PRISM" I wouldn't even be having this conversation.
>
> My point of view won't change, count this as a vote. Regardless of
> the merits of any other XML syndication methods out there RSS will be
> stronger if it offers a RSS-basic and RSS-extensible.
>
> It makes RSS bigger, more flexible and more appealing to newcomers.
>
> I'll try and give an anology with cars. Say you want a sports car and
> xxx has 6 models and a book full of options, and yyy offers one car.
> Even if the one car that yyy offers is EXACTLY what you want, most
> would go with company xxx, because they have choices. To me, having
> RSS-somethings strengthens RSS.
>
> James Shaw
> http://ASPRSS.com/ (coming June 15th)
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