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> but text/uri-list is a better format for the most common use of OPML (a collection of RSS/Atom feeds) text/uri-list seems like joy to use technically, but in
by imadj 2y ago
> but text/uri-list is a better format for the most common use of OPML (a collection of RSS/Atom feeds)
text/uri-list seems like joy to use technically, but in practice simple formats have tendency to evolve into frankenstein monster with a mess of extensions and variations (see markdown for example) where every vendor will extend the format to support something for their platform.
Users expect to maintain their feed structure for example when moving to a new platform just like a file system hierarchy, which text/uri-list doesn't seem to support right off the bat
- cxr 2y ago> in practice simple formats have tendency to evolve into frankenstein monster with a mess of extensions and variations (see markdown for example) Compare to OPML, which is supposed to support other things—exactly the type of things you describe—but it requires special handling in the implementation to actually do it, so you get implementations that don't, which isn't far off from the exact situation of variants that you describe. See the previous OPML importer that I linked to for an example.