RSS Sucks, Atom Rules
Posted by matijs
Why we need Atom now by Tim Bray (via bitworking) once again brought the horrors of RSS to the front of my working memory. I will not elaborate here, but the main problem seems to be that there are nine versions of RSS, and even more implementations. The result is that you can never get things right. Atom to the rescue.
Not wanting to be the Bitch and Moan But Never Does type, I removed all links to RSS feeds from my web site. The remaining links are all Atom feeds, but the word Atom will not be in the link text, to facilitate the fading of technical details into the background. It’ll just say feed. I will probably add the new standard feed icon.
The RSS feeds are still there, of course, since I want my URIs to be permanent.
