Answer by koan for Why Are People Still Creating RSS Feeds?
RSS is more simple, that's where its strength is. Atom is better defined, yes, but that's the problem: they made it easy to write a very complex feed when at the end of the day you want a simplified...
View ArticleAnswer by Ivan for Why Are People Still Creating RSS Feeds?
I think RSS has a better marketable name :-) RSS is something easy to say, serious-sounding, and virtually senseless. Really sounds like a silver-bullet technology. "Atom" word has sense, but hardly...
View ArticleAnswer by Brian Vallelunga for Why Are People Still Creating RSS Feeds?
The 'why' was fairly well answered, but I would suggest going forward that developers only implement Atom on sites. There's no reason to have multiple formats for a site available and any modern feed...
View ArticleAnswer by Oppositional for Why Are People Still Creating RSS Feeds?
If you are asking why the Atom syndication format is not more widely adopted than the various versions of the RSS format, I think it would be difficult to come to an objective answer. A variety of...
View ArticleAnswer by Derek Park for Why Are People Still Creating RSS Feeds?
The fundamental thing that the Atom creators didn't understand (and that the Atom supporters still don't understand), is that Atom isn't somehow separate from RSS. There's this idea that RSS fractured,...
View ArticleAnswer by John Topley for Why Are People Still Creating RSS Feeds?
Vincent, I'm not suggesting that anyone rewrite existing RSS feeds just for the sake of it, that would be a big waste of time! In terms of RSS being the acronym that defines the category, I'm guessing...
View ArticleAnswer by Vincent Robert for Why Are People Still Creating RSS Feeds?
For the same reason that every "better" solution did not succeed for mass market. RSS is widely deployed and it solves the same problem Atom is trying to solve.Personaly, I have a large number of RSS...
View ArticleAnswer by Andrew Grant for Why Are People Still Creating RSS Feeds?
Because for the majority of purposes either will work, and RSS has the advantage of being the acronym that defines the category.Beyond that you would have to email individual sites and ask them.
View ArticleAnswer by Darren Kopp for Why Are People Still Creating RSS Feeds?
The same reason that people are HTML 4 loose, strict, XHTML transitional, XHTML strict, etc. Legacy code / working with what you already know. Besides, both formats have their merits. Better to support...
View ArticleAnswer by DevelopingChris for Why Are People Still Creating RSS Feeds?
Because the developers of sed sights got reemed from their marketing manager that they were "excluding" people by not providing rss. Since Mr. Marketing has never heard of Atom, you just provide both....
View ArticleAnswer by rjzii for Why Are People Still Creating RSS Feeds?
There are a lot of RSS feed readers out there that people are used to using, and most importantly, RSS is very well known and has been around much longer. Why mess with something if it works?
View ArticleWhy Are People Still Creating RSS Feeds?
...instead of using the Atom syndication format?Atom is a well-defined, general-purpose XML syndication format. RSS is fractured into four different versions. All the major feed readers have supported...
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