Apple Breaks RSS with Photocasting

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.'"

Comments

Microsoft to the rescue?

[caluml]

Perhaps Microsoft can send them a few developers to help out? Together, I'm sure they can really mess it all up :)

Re:Apple

[greginnj]

I was about to compliment you for your metric conversion, then decided to see for myself to guess at your source, but...

800 pounds = 362.873896 kilograms

Correct to 6 decimal places is funny; being off by more than 3 kg isn't... Use the power of Google, people!

brain cell misfire: add more caffeine, try again.

[kris_lang]

damn, i used my brain cells with 2.2 pounds ~ 1.0 Kg,
so that made it 800 lbs / 2.2 or kinda 400 / 1.1,
1 over 11 is 9.090909..., so its 360+3.6+.36, so oops
I erred in my head, I should have had 363.(63)* repeating, which would have been DAMN closer. Damn the power of brainware. Who taught this AI system??? But hey, it was just a side-bar in a comment, and close enough is close enough for a commentary. It's not like I was scheduling a fly-by for Saturn's moons or anything.

Or perhaps Apple's diet made it a little leaner, yeah, yeah, that's the ticket. I was commenting on how it STILL is not quite a complete 800 lb gorilla. Yeah, that's what I meant!

New Standard

[JustOK]

Let's all call it "Apple Simple Syndication (ASS)" and see what happens.

Crackers and cheese, anyone?

[kronocide]

"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," said Winer.