On 1/30/06 12:00 PM, "Lucas Gonze" <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 1/30/06, Jens Alfke <email@hidden> wrote:
>> Isn't "application/rss+xml" a de-facto standard? But in any case, a MIME
>> type wouldn't suffice. A feed is more than a static document like a JPG: its
>> value comes from the fact that it changes over time in a meaningful way, and
>> the value of a news-reader is that it tracks those changes.
>
> Jens, I am sincerely impressed that you came up with a decent case for
> using a new scheme rather than a content type, but regardless of the
> details making up a new approach breaks an enormous amount of existing
> software, leaving the users in the cold yet again and all of us
> vendors with no way to help them. What would you and your teammates
> think of having Apple join other vendors of client software on the
> protocol for one-click subscription?
In terms of users and vendors, Apple has done a commendable thing.
Setting aside the details of the feed: protocol for a minute, here's what
they did:
1. Added a default-aggregator popup menu to Safari's preferences, so that
you can choose a default aggregator other than Safari.
2. Made it so that subscribing to an RSS feed via Safari is very, very easy
-- even if you use an aggregator other than Safari.
As a vendor, I like this. A lot. I appreciate Apple's giving users a choice
and making it so they're not penalized for a non-Apple choice -- subscribing
is still easy.
I don't care that much how this is done under the hood, just as long as it
works, because the benefits to vendors and users are real.
Were Apple to use something other than the feed protocol -- that would be
fine by me, but it needs to work as well as the current system.
-Brent
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