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REST:SOAP::RSS:Atom::Markdown:CommonMarkdown I suspect this pattern will continue into perpetuity because such a large audience will never come to grips with t

by pbreit 12y ago

REST:SOAP::RSS:Atom::Markdown:CommonMarkdown I suspect this pattern will continue into perpetuity because such a large audience will never come to grips with the fact that "better" isn't always better.

aboodman 12y ago
Do people use RSS anymore? All the stuff I use is Atom.
- aboodman 12y ago
  Answering my own question: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(standard)#Barriers_to_adoption http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(standard)#Barriers_to_ado... Sad.
- sp332 12y ago
  I have 54 feeds in NewsBlur and only 3 of them are Atom.
nernst 12y ago
I think the key one here is "XHTML:HTML". Like HTML markdown offloads the responsibility onto the parser writer to figure out what was intended. So while I sympathize with Github and Stack Overflow, as a user it should just work. And usually does.
dragonwriter 12y ago
SOAP is not a clarified, less-ambiguous, consistent standard developed from REST for the same role. (Heck, they aren't even the same class of thing -- SOAP is a protocol, REST is an architectural style. And SOAP is signficantly older than REST.) RSS:Atom might, arguably. be very loosely analogous to Markdown :: Common Markdown.