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Apple Breaks RSS with Photocasting

Posted by Zonk on from the watch-where-you're-putting-those-tags dept.

Barry Norton writes "VNUNet reports that the Photocasting feature in Apple's iPhoto application violates core XML and RSS standards. Perhaps the worst part is that, in many cases, this isn't even a case of 'embrace and extend', but just plain doing it wrong. Dave Winer, essentially the creator of RSS, says, 'It's pretty bad. There are lots of errors, the date formats are wrong, there are elements that are not in RSS that aren't in a namespace.'"

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  1. Re:RSS Validation Utility? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    What does Dave Winer (or anyone who works with RSS daily) recommend we use to validate applications and websites?

    Christ, what is with Slashdotters and namedropping? Who gives a fuck what Dave Whiner has to say about this? Computing is not like history or politics. Software and protocols should come before reverence for people. All we need to do is look at the standards. In essence, shut the fuck up and show me the code.