Re: [syndication] Re: "Reborn into a world that's grown up"

[Rick Bradley <roundeye@roundeye.net>]

* Bill Kearney (wkearney@syndic8.com) [040106 18:57]:
> > About the protocols, you make a lot of sweeping statements that you don't
> > justify. I don't like the way you characterize the MetaWeblog API, which I
> > designed, deployed in two products, and evangelized successfully to get
> > broad deployment in a very short period. It has stood the test of time. I've
> > never heard anyone who actually built apps on top of it complain, quite the
> > contrary, people seem pleased with its elegance. 
[...]
> As for the metaweblog API, standing firmly (if half-baked) on the shoulders of
> Evan's work with the Blogger API.  Even while ignoring the homegrown Manila API.

Seems that Kimbro Staken disagrees with the "elegance" of the MetaWeblog API:

  <http://www.xmldatabases.org/WK/blog/587_Metaweblog_and_other_Syncato_bits.item>

I definitely trust Kimbro's take as a developer, and am highly skeptical
of most things coming out of Dave's keyboard (especially code).  Make
your own appraisals, but I, for one, am glad I never had to implement
the MetaWeblog API.

Rick
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