OT: Bezeqint made me "poof... he's gone"

[Dotan Cohen]

>> This choice only confuses users. What advantage does Atom give the user?
>>
>
> Well, see for example this bug:
>
> https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=44899
>
> Essentially, XML::Feed works the best if all feeds are Atom or all feeds are
> RSS. And there may be similar bugs in other programs. Two links - one to Atom
> and one to RSS, does not hurt. Most people are clueful enough to make a choice
> between them. And if they aren't, they probably won't enjoy my homesite.
>

I could make a similar argument about some UAs not handling HTML 4.1
well, do you give them a choice of HTML 1.0 for your website? Atom has
no advantage over RSS, it only serves to confuse users. I cannot wait
to see it go the way of the blink tab.


> I know many sites and blog services that publicse <link tags to both RSS and
> Atom.
>

And each one confuses users.


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