Re: [syndication] Re: Ads in RSS

[Mike Krus <mkrus@newsisfree.com>]

Dan Lyke wrote:

> So in both design and practice, the description field in RSS .92 (and
> we've heard from someone on the 1.0 committee) is clearly text.
Not in practise!!!  I run http://www.newsisfree.com/ and many many
RSS feeds, whether .91 or .92, contain HTML code, include formating and
images.

And, I don't like it, my site was designed for things that had
a title, a link, and maybe a description. Seeing stuff like those
weblog oriented feeds made my life more complicated.

I personally don't like it, the mixing of form and content. But
the bottom line is that you can make a program make sense of simple
HTML to get richer information (links et al.) and that the
information in those feeds is worth the trouble!



Mike