[MTOS-dev] RSS Support

[Bruce]

Glad you are aware of this Neil,
Add to this, quite a few developers parse itunes and media rss feeds, which 
is rss2, outside of plugins..

Bruce
bkdesign
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Niall Kennedy" <niall at niallkennedy.com>
To: "Byrne Reese" <byrne at sixapart.com>
Cc: "Bruce" <bruce at bkdesign.ca>; <mtos-dev at sixapart.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: [MTOS-dev] RSS Support


>  Dropping RSS 2.0 support in favor of Atom does have consequences
> when paired with established namespaces such as podcasting (e.g.
> iTunes [1] and Media RSS [2]). These specialized use cases may be best
> handled inside of a plugin environment and generate RSS 2.0 when
> needed.
>
> -Niall Kennedy
>
>
> [1] http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/podcaststechspecs.html#rss
> [2] http://search.yahoo.com/mrss
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Byrne Reese <byrne at sixapart.com> wrote:
>> On 4/20/08 12:34 PM, "Bruce" <bruce at bkdesign.ca> wrote:
>>  > It is the most popular and widest used by far and has the most support 
>> with
>>  > feedreaders and parsers.
>>
>>  I beg to differ. We work closely with almost every feed reading software
>>  provider out there, their teams have assured us directly, and we have 
>> found
>>  through our own testing that Atom and RSS are supported equally.
>>
>>  This decision was never about standards politics or what format is 
>> better
>>  than the other, this release is about performance, and in this day and 
>> age,
>>  there is no need to publish feeds in multiple formats when they are
>>  supported equally [1].
>>
>>  We selected Atom because all things being equal, Atom is an Internet
>>  standard and RSS is not, and that is more closely aligned with MTOS' 
>> stated
>>  project goals [2].
>>
>>  If however there is concrete evidence to suggest that dropping RSS will
>>  result in Movable Type not interoperating with third party software then 
>> we
>>  will happily reconsider the change.
>>
>>  I might also add that MT will always support the ability to publish RSS
>>  feeds. The templates will always be free and open source, and third 
>> party
>>  template sets are always welcome to bundle whatever feed formats they
>>  choose.
>>
>>  Byrne
>>
>>  [1] Although clearly you disagree with that assertion. Would you might
>>     indicating which tools do not support Atom?
>>
>>  [2] http://www.movabletype.org/opensource/
>>
>>
>>
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