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

[Shlomi Fish]

On Thursday 18 June 2009 20:27:11 Dotan Cohen wrote:
> >> 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? 

Well, these are very rare nowadays and need not be catered for. Most modern 
browsers can handle my XHTML 1.1 just fine, and I haven't heard any complaints 
yet. On the other hand, feed aggregators, handlers, and manglers that best use 
either RSS or Atom are pretty common.


> 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.

Atom has many advantages over RSS. See for example: 
http://blog.unto.net/work/on-rss-and-atom/ . And be careful with what you wish 
for.

>
> > I know many sites and blog services that publicse <link tags to both RSS
> > and Atom.
>
> And each one confuses users.

That's what you think. I am not convinced.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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