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RSS Version 3 Specs Up for Review

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the we'll-be-supporting-atom-in-a-few-weeks dept.

Jonathan Avidan writes "The RSS 3 Homepage now offers its first publicly available specification, the RSS 3 Lite-type Specification First Draft, intended for review and commenting for revision. RSS 3 is a reworking of RSS 2.0, filling the gaps and removing unnecessary features and is fully backwards-compatible, rather than a new format."

2 of 147 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Gzip RSS by Bogtha · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why isn't gzip compression of RSS feeds part of the specification?

    It is. It's part of the HTTP specification, RFC 2616. Every data format transmitted over HTTP can take advantage of it. There's no need to treat RSS as a special case.

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    Bogtha Bogtha Bogtha
  2. Re:Unnecessary features by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You remove features for which support was optional. Old implementations should discover that you're not using the options, new implementations no longer even check for them.