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Am I the only one loving Atom? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_%28standard%29#Atom_compared_to_RSS_2.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_%28standard%29#Ato
by lince 14y ago
Am I the only one loving Atom?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_%28standard%29#Atom_compared_to_RSS_2.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_%28standard%29#Atom_compa...
- Wilya 14y agoFrankly, except for the people developing the readers, the RSS/Atom distinction is completely irrelevant. RSS is used as a simplification for RSS/Atom. I am actually developing a reader, so I know the differences. They're mostly minor, and I have to support both formats anyway, so I abstract most of them away.
- pnelson 14y agoMost are minor but Atom feeds explicitly state content type. This could be a security issue with RSS since there is no reliable way to guess between plain text or escaped HTML. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(standard)#Content_model http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(standard)#Content_model
- rhizome 14y agoI've been using RSS for ~10 years and I still don't know why I would choose Atom over RSS or RSS 2.0 or whatever.
- simonw 14y agoBecause it's possible to represent the characters >, < and & in the title of an item in an Atom feed.
- vog 14y agoYou aren't. Indeed, when I read a headline like "Will RSS die?" for the first time, I expected to find an article about how Atom will replace RSS.