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A point not mentioned was Dave Winer's refusal to clarify if excerpts in his version of RSS feed needed to be plain text or contain HTML (either as HTML tags or
by spc476 8y ago
A point not mentioned was Dave Winer's refusal to clarify if excerpts in his version of RSS feed needed to be plain text or contain HTML (either as HTML tags or entity encoded). He just kept saying "Keep it simple, people!"
- raphlinus 8y agoI've always said that RSS is Dave Winer's gift to the world.
- chrismorgan 8y agoI type prose naturally with curly quotes (I love my Compose key!), and the fact that they aren’t as commonly mangled as straight quotes has been a nice bonus. (OK, so occasionally it’ll become mojibake, but I find that to be rarer than improper HTML entity encoding, for the last few years.)
- CharlesW 8y agoThere's no concept of an "excerpt" in RSS, but if we're talking item descriptions, the RSS 2.0 spec says that HTML is allowed and provides examples. http://www.rssboard.org/rss-encoding-examples http://www.rssboard.org/rss-encoding-examples
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- spc476 8y agoYou could include the whole post or just a portion in the feed, but Dave never clarified how it was to be encoded.
- ttepasse 8y agoThose examples came later than Dave Winer's stewardship. Those were made by the RSS Board which is its own point of weirdness in RSS' history.