Comments on: Don’t make me choose a feed format! http://trevorturk.com/2008/12/07/dont-make-me-choose-a-feed-format/ Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:45:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Timothy O'Connell http://trevorturk.com/2008/12/07/dont-make-me-choose-a-feed-format/#comment-67016 Timothy O'Connell Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:11:16 +0000 http://almosteffortless.com/?p=872#comment-67016 Also agreed. I was actually just thinking about this moments ago in the context of using the link rel="alternate" tag to do an end-run around exactly this problem. Basically, I concluded that XML 1.0 and RSS 2.0 encoded in UTF8 were the de facto standard and that providing the other alternatives was a waste of everyone's time. I mean, I'm sure there are good reasons to use Atom, but when you're offering multiple alternatives for this, you're making more work for yourself and annoying the 90% of people who honestly couldn't care less what syndication format you use. Also agreed. I was actually just thinking about this moments ago in the context of using the link rel=”alternate” tag to do an end-run around exactly this problem. Basically, I concluded that XML 1.0 and RSS 2.0 encoded in UTF8 were the de facto standard and that providing the other alternatives was a waste of everyone’s time.

I mean, I’m sure there are good reasons to use Atom, but when you’re offering multiple alternatives for this, you’re making more work for yourself and annoying the 90% of people who honestly couldn’t care less what syndication format you use.

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