Orange buttons (was: Re: What to call the RSS file)

["Bill Kearney" <wkearney99@hotmail.com>]

> Maybe I'm missing something here. But IMHO .xml is exactly right. 
This
> tells the file reader to start reading text and to expect it to be 
well
> formed xml. xml then has quite enough standards to be able to work 
out
> what to do next based on the contents of the second and subsequent
> lines.

That is, of course, depending on whether or not the 'opening' program 
understands to do some parsing before it hands the file over to the 
correct handler.  Most don't.

And to make matters worse, neither do the browsers.

> But from the POV of a webmaster evangelizing your syndication xml 
file,
> I wish sites would put *something*, in fact *anything* somewhere on
> their website to say it's there. In my research of Slash and Slash 
clone
> sites, I lost count of the number of times there was nothing. Not 
on the
> home page, FAQ, help, about etc etc.    

Indeed, at the very least it would help to have them populate their 
own search pages with 'syndication, rss, rdf, newsfeed, headlines' 
and the like.  IMHO, it's premature to insist on a given URI 
construct since we don't even have the file extension pinned down.

-bill kearney