Re: [syndication] Re: WebParts

["Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>]

I called it XML because when you look at the file that's what you see.

This connects up with all the articles people have read about XML.

The link should have a title attribute, where it explains briefly what the
file is about. If you hover over the icon in a title-aware browser you see
the title as a tool-tip.

Also on my site the format is not RSS, it's <scriptingNews> -- so if I
called it RSS that would be incorrect.

Also RSS is becoming an increasingly meaningless term. To your point about
evangelism in the previous message, no one can write a cost-benefit pitch on
RSS now without including shrill explanation about why this is the RSS
format you should use. As you've seen (and I have too) outsiders could care
less.

I hear that you're busy Julian, me too. We're doing the best we can. The
white-on-orange-XML icon is what our designer came up with when I described
the problem to him. No one has complained so far except on this list.

Dave



----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Bond" <julian@netmarketseurope.com>
To: <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 1:36 AM
Subject: Re: [syndication] Re: WebParts


> In article <9d9qrl+gif4@eGroups.com>, Bill Kearney
> <wkearney99@hotmail.com> writes
> >I don't think the orange XML button works.  To me it implies generic
> >XML more than a feed.
>
> I did wonder why Dave W put "XML" on the button and not "RSS". I guess
> XML implies that there's something here that's cool, but I'm not going
> to tell you what. You should read the XML file to find out. It's a bit
> more generic.
>
> Some time ago, I asked if there was any sort of convention for naming
> RSS files and there isn't. MyFile.rss.xml seems logical but I'm sure
> there's arguments why that would be wrong. Regardless of what we would
> like to happen, the file naming actually out there is all over the
> place. .xml, .rss, cdf, .rdf etc etc.
>
> And then there's all the other XML type files. Are we going to see
> .wsdl, .xlt, .xsl, .dtd and so on and on, and on (and ariston).
>
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