Comments on: Four thoughts on MS RSS so far http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/06/28/four-thoughts-on-ms-rss-so-far It's all spinning wheels and self-doubt until the first pot of coffee. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0-alpha By: On Ignorant Feed Handling » Archive » Blog » 0xDECAFBAD http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/06/28/four-thoughts-on-ms-rss-so-far/comment-page-1#comment-9100 On Ignorant Feed Handling » Archive » Blog » 0xDECAFBAD Sun, 26 Mar 2006 18:51:56 +0000 http://www.decafbad.com/blog/?p=660#comment-9100 <p>[...] When I first read about the new feed API coming from Microsoft, I had good hopes for it as a Winsock-like universal handler for feeds for Windows apps. And, I’m sure it will be used that way - but unlike Winsock, it appears that the MS feed API mangles data on the way through. This will end up being a dead end for the growth of feed formats, where Winsock was an enabler for future unknown internet applications. The point is, just as you can build a library to handle internet traffic that doesn’t care about the content of what it receives - you can do the same with syndication feeds as XML data. DeliciousComments.register ("delFullComments-917", "http://decafbad.com/blog/2006/03/26/on-ignorant-feed-handling", true) [...]</p> [...] When I first read about the new feed API coming from Microsoft, I had good hopes for it as a Winsock-like universal handler for feeds for Windows apps. And, I’m sure it will be used that way – but unlike Winsock, it appears that the MS feed API mangles data on the way through. This will end up being a dead end for the growth of feed formats, where Winsock was an enabler for future unknown internet applications. The point is, just as you can build a library to handle internet traffic that doesn’t care about the content of what it receives – you can do the same with syndication feeds as XML data. DeliciousComments.register (“delFullComments-917″, “http://decafbad.com/blog/2006/03/26/on-ignorant-feed-handling”, true) [...]

]]> By: Mark http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/06/28/four-thoughts-on-ms-rss-so-far/comment-page-1#comment-1731 Mark Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.decafbad.com/blog/?p=660#comment-1731 <blockquote> <p>I doubt I barely rate as a C-list blogger in the 'sphere as a whole, so that anyone bothered to contact little old me seems unexpected as well.</p> </blockquote> <p>I got that email as well, and I've been out of the community for almost a year. I filed it under "things I tell myself I no longer care about, but secretly miss, on rainy days and such."</p>

I doubt I barely rate as a C-list blogger in the ’sphere as a whole, so that anyone bothered to contact little old me seems unexpected as well.

I got that email as well, and I’ve been out of the community for almost a year. I filed it under “things I tell myself I no longer care about, but secretly miss, on rainy days and such.”

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