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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."

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  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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  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.

  3. Re:Im sure Microsoft can improve it by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm sure you're wrong. Microsoft will undoubtedly implement RSS 3.0 into Longhorn with no changes. After all, they're committed to Open Standards.

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  4. Awful, awful idea by Bogtha · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I get the feeling that this is a practical joke/troll by Jonathan Avidan - the person who is editing this new specification, the person who maintains the website linked to, and who submitted this article to Slashdot.

    Yeah, the RSS 2 specification could do with cleaning up and clarification. No, it's not feasible because of too many people doing stupid things like announcing new versions of RSS all on their own and fragmenting the community.

    From the FAQ:

    Who designs the RSS Version 3 standard?

    Jonathan Avidan managers this site and edits the specifications according to common requests and open debates held in the Message Board and via email.

    Follow the link. It's a new message board with no posts.

    There is zero community behind this "standard", it's just a spec some guy decided to write of his own accord. In contrast, a real community effort, Atom, has just reached 1.0 and is standardized by the IETF. Nobody should take this "RSS 3.0" seriously.

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