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I would agree if we were talking about a SOAP protocol that could be restful or something. But RSS doesn't bother me at all. You can just pass it through a conv
by logn 14y ago
I would agree if we were talking about a SOAP protocol that could be restful or something. But RSS doesn't bother me at all. You can just pass it through a converter to suit your fancy, and the bloat for an average use case of 10 results can't be that much. It's a minor miracle anybody decided to publish their sites through RSS so I'm happy they used the format that was hot at the time and got adoption.
- anonfunction 14y agoI love RSS, I couldn't have built a ton of cool stuff over the years without it. For example I built @twuoted using twitter's search feed 4 years ago with Sweetcron, but that has long since been replaced by twitters API. I don't hate on RSS, I think it was a wonderful invention for it's time and was great for showing how standards can work. But I still want it to die and JSON to become the new king in data transfer. That could be due to my work being in the web development arena and using node.js, but I honestly think it's just a better solution.