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Microsoft To Extend RSS
Joshua53077 writes "Microsoft announced today a plan to 'extend the RSS standard to better support the publishing of ordered lists of information...' This feature will be included in Longhorn. It appears as though they will be including RSS support in Internet Explorer, which will come over a year and a half after the same technology was introduced in Apple's Safari RSS." From the article: "Gary Schare, director of strategic product management in the Windows division of Microsoft, says that while RSS is a reliable standard for updating information in message form, it currently has no logical way to organize that information in a way that could help subscribers keep track of what is being fed to them."
This feature will be included in Longhorn.
Don't panic. This gives the OSS community a couple of years to respond. Besides, this feature probably won't make it into the final release of Longhorn anyway.
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I'm sure they will add stuff that makes sense as well!
From the article, The people at Microsoft noticed something that I had seen, only peripherally--that there were applications of RSS that aren't about news. Like podcasting? Also, who thinks Microsoft's extension of RSS may be the attempted return of push technology?
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You assholes.
Don't they have to "embrace" first?
Apparently it's going to be called SSS - Sorta Simple Syndication.
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They're going to add a "Marquee" tag so that rss readers can now support scrolling headnlines.
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It's only reasonable to expect innovation like this from the company that invented the Internet.
Microsoft kicks ass!
After the enormous improvements that were the MS extensions to Java, I'm sure this will be a great extension that will benefit everyone involved, and act to reduce lock-in. What wonderful people MS are, improving things for everyone.
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'Really Simple' obviosuly means something different in Redmond. They've obviosuly embraced and extended English as well. I'll have to try that one in the Word thesaraus. Mark
Special features to interact with Exchange and/or Outlook.
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Whee, RSS Viruses!
Are YOU sure it's not "$$$"?
Yeah. Thunderbird.
I stole this sig from someone cleverer than me.
Sorta Simple Syndication Supporting Lengthy Ordered Lists So Users Can Keep Track Of What's New.
1) Embrace
2) Extend
3) Delay release until after Longhorn.
4) PROFIT!!
5) Patch Critical Security Flaws.
6) Patch Critical Security Flaws.
7) Patch Critical Security Flaws.
8) Patch Critical Security Flaws.
9) Patch Critical Security Flaws.
10) Patch Critical Security Flaws.
11) Patch Critical Security Flaws.
12) Patch Critical Security Flaws.
And that's better than the Open Source business plan, how?
1. Steal/Copy Idea
2. ???
3. Profit
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(A bit offtopic here) I find it interesting how the internet went from a primarily text-based medium, and suddenly exploded with MEDIA MEDIA MEDIA everywhere. We ended up with horrble frankensites like IGN and CNet, with maybe 1% actual content per page, the rest being graphical and media fluff. And now I hear what you say a LOT, where people are sick of going to sites and being overloaded with junk, and trying to find the buried content. Lots of people are finding the minimalist standpoint to be a valid one (my website for instance is pretty minimalist in that regard).
I like to refer to this stuff as nontent.
That won't break the use of RSS with existing software. RSS is a dialect of XML. XML is designed to be extended without breaking existing uses. This is why XML can be so useful as a data format - software that uses an XML dialect will still work after the dialect is extended.
Yes, and HTML should work in any browser.
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