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RSS Wins, Signals Atom's Death Toll?
S. Housley writes "
RSS appears to have conquered the last hurdle in
becoming the industry syndication standard.
Microsoft's inclusion of RSS into the newest version
of Internet Explorer and reports that RSS will be
in Longhorn's coming release appears to be the final
nail in the coffin of the Atom specification. Even
Atom's steadfast supporter Google, appears to have
seen the light. Google had previously acquired Blogger,
a popular blogging tool that uses the Atom specification
to syndicate the contents of blogs created on the
Blogger platform. In the past Google had strategically
steered clear of endorsing the RSS specification
hoping that Atom, would take hold.
Google's recent new service that allows web surfers
to monitor Google News using either RSS or
Atom feeds, appears to be an acknowledgment that
perhaps in purchasing Blogger, they chose the wrong
specification. "
Hey mods, I've done you the favor of suggesting the mod that you're going to give me, despite the fact that it's my honest opinion and I'm asking for someone to be informative.
I've used Slashdot's RSS. I even thought it was cool for about a week. But guess what? It's basically just a lame XML schema that essentially contains a standardized webpage with a bunch of hrefs. Whooptee-freaking-doo! I don't use it anymore because it's faster/easier and more informative for me to just click on my slashdot bookmark.
I'm sure it uses less bandwidth and compute power, but what's the real selling point? Seriously? Am I missing something, or is RSS really as pointless as I think it is? Maybe it's only useful for people who constantly spam reload the front page hoping that an article will appear? Well that's not me.
Nice capitalization after a semi-colon, fag.
Nice life on Slashdot, fag.