Netscape Restores RSS DTD, Until July

Randall Bennett writes "RSS 0.91's DTD has been restored to it's rightful location on my.netscape.com, but it'll only stay there till July 1st, 2007. Then, Netscape will remove the DTD, which is loaded four million times each day. Devs, start your caching engines."

Comments

Not enough time!!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Developers who made the mistake to use that external resource in their code most likely don't have the brain resources to adapt until July.

(This is not a troll. Resignation and bitterness, maybe. But not a troll.)

Re:Not enough time!!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

That is kind of like declaring PI to be a volatile double variable, in case it changes in real time...

CmdrTaco

[MagicM]

Netscape Restores RSS DTD, Until July - from the that's-kinda-lame dept.
Two Stargate SG1 Films Announced - from the good-for-them dept.
Linux: x86 Linux Flash Player 9 is Final - from the i-still-hate-flash dept.

Looks like somebody is having a case of the mondays.

(On Wednesday.)

Re:CmdrTaco

[Valthan]

I believe you would get your ass kicked for saying that to someone.

mirror ;)

[jaredmauch]

http://puck.nether.net/rss-0.9.dtd and http://puck.nether.net/rss-0.91.dtd

Re:mirror ;)

[CokeBear]

i registered nether.net before aol registered aol.com

But you waited until (UID 633928) to register on Slashdot?

Newbie.

Re:mirror ;)

[RabidMonkey]

"newbie"?

thats so oldschool now, it's noob or newb now

y'old fart.

Probably

[Anonymous Coward]

As that would give Google another way to track your every online move.

Re:Redirect

[AndroidCat]

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Content-Type: text/html
Location: http://127.0.0.1/

Re:Redirect

[AndroidCat]

And any dev who codes his app to check a file like this...

They might not even know that they're doing it if they're using Microsoft's Swiss Army Chainsaw XMLHTTP COM object and set the flags wrong.

Re:whoops

[drinkypoo]

Cant they sue Microsoft for stealing bandwidth, and bad design?

Uh, if Microsoft could be held liable for bad design, their buildings would already have been burned to the ground, their women stampeded, their cattle raped, the ground sown with salt and the wells poisoned.

dumb

[Anonymous Coward]

"should feed readers be relying on the availability of a static document on a third-party Web server (and thus a connection to the Internet)?"

Yeah, feed readers don't need the internet at all! What WERE you guys thinking?

Re:Redirect

[BobNET]

And naturally that's Microsofts fault? Not the developer who doesn't know anything about their tool?

I wouldn't worry about it, many developers have firsthand experience with their tools...

Re: Because software evolves by mutation

[Zak3056]

Now we need software that can breed sexually.

Nahh, the risk of virus transmission is too high...

Re:Redirect

[doom]

It's truly stupid for client-side software to be accessing it over the Internet to read its forever-static contents.

Hey, you're challenging one of the cherished principles on which the web was based.

The next thing you know, you're going to be talking about the separation of document id from location.

Re:pi meter

[alienmole]

You could also do the same thing with a piece of string and a ruler, but it wouldn't be convenient enough to call it a "pi meter".

Yeah, but if you attached the string to a sleeping cat's tail, then when the value of pi changes it would pull the cat's tail and the cat would jump, hitting the lever above its head, which would release a ball which would roll down a spiral ramp into a container of water balanced on a thin beam, so that when the ball sinks to the bottom of the container it would tip it over onto the cat, which would release an ear-splitting yowl... What was the question again?

Re:whoops

[symbolset]

It would be returned for a refund.