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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. brain cell misfire: add more caffeine, try again. by kris_lang · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

  2. New Standard by JustOK · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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    rewriting history since 2109