[The RSS 2.0 spec's] vagueness makes it accessible.
What?!
Thank God these people weren't around when HTTP was being developed... or SMTP or LDAP or any of the protocols that make the Internet go.
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[The RSS 2.0 spec's] vagueness makes it accessible.
What?!
Thank God these people weren't around when HTTP was being developed... or SMTP or LDAP or any of the protocols that make the Internet go.
Comments
HTTP and SMTP and LDAP are meant to be read by machines only. They have to be perfect. RSS is supposed to be parseable by non-technical humans as well as machines. A more accurate analogy would be HTML.