RE: [syndication] 0.92 divergence from 0.91

[dave.cantrell@gunter.af.mil]

>>>Question: If Netscape has abandoned the format, why do we care what
>>>Netscape thinks RSS should be?
>
>There's a very simple answer and thanks for asking the question.
>
>Two words: installed base.
>
>This is the reason this community exists, imho -- to serve the installed
>base, and to grow it.
>
>That's why change must be continuous, and embrace the past.

Okay...

Then can someone explain the divergence from 0.9 as RDF to 0.91 as flat XML?
Why did they abandon the original format when adding scriptingNews elements?
Seems they could have just extended it and kept it backwards-compatible with
0.9...

This doesn't even remain consistent with Netscape's own established
standard.

Slashdot still uses 0.9...

	http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rdf

Just curious...

-dave  (who didn't even know 0.9 was RDF until a couple days ago anyway)