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The article downplays the significance of Atom. Today, nearly all Web feeds are available as Atom. Hackers, learn from this. Specs matter. https://web.archive

by bmn__ 8y ago

The article downplays the significance of Atom. Today, nearly all Web feeds are available as Atom. Hackers, learn from this. Specs matter. https://web.archive.org/web/2004/http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/02/04/incompatible-rss https://web.archive.org/web/2004/http://diveintomark.org/arc... Atom exists precisely because RSS is a clusterfuck that could not be salvaged.

CharlesW 8y ago
Regarding the "The myth of RSS compatibility" article, at one point RSS was evolving and changes broke stuff. But the article overstates the case, and the RSS spec has been boringly frozen for almost two decades now. > The article downplays the significance of Atom. Does it? Atom Syndication Format seems like a vestigial feed format, so I'm interested in cases where it's used and RSS isn't also available.