> Since rss is text only the sizes are very small and compress well. Considering the average web page is 3M[0], pulling down 10-100k of every post ever doesn’t

> Since rss is text only the sizes are very small and compress well. Considering the average web page is 3M[0], pulling down 10-100k of every post ever doesn’t matter. My web pages are 100k and my RSS feed is 500k. > It’s certainly a downside, but completely useable as is, and better than any viable alternative. It doesn't fulfill the need I originally mentioned: making blog archives readable offline. > As far as standards go, I prefer simple, static file, over something requiring dynamic response. I agree static is better, but a dynamic response isn't necessary. You could just have a static file that listed all the blog posts, with a link to another static file for each post. This avoids having the user download 10 blog posts each time they want to poll if something new has happened.