Comments on: Can We Unify Our Feed Formats?

By: Phil Crissman

Phil Crissman — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:21:30 +0000

Good points, Garrick. That’s one of the reasons I think there won’t be any real push to try to unify the format of feeds; it’s not hard just to support the all the current formats.

I probably just liked the idea of using YAML, and let that snowball into this post.

@mrBen… yeah, I’d agree. And for those reasons, I’ve no plan to attempt to create a new standard.

By: Garrick Van Buren

Garrick Van Buren — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:03:14 +0000

from my perspective as a developer, it’s negligible to publish in multiple feed formats. In fact, the benefits of compatibility far outweigh the small additional dev costs. Atom, RSS, YAML, M3U, etc, all have their strengths and weaknesses. Understanding them makes it easier to determine how and when to publish in each.

By: mrben

mrben — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:41:17 +0000

If you want to implement a new standard (and, you know, go for it) then you need to make sure that:

a) The transition is painless - you’ll need plugins for all the major blog systems, and conversion routines for everyone else

b) The benefits are huge.