I have some more info on ttl usage now. I haven't tested every aggregator in my collection, but I've at least done all the ones currently listed in the profile...
As part of the research for the RSS Profile, I compiled statistics on how frequently RSS core elements and namespace elements appear in feeds. Here's part one...
The dc:language element from Dublin Core was the most popular namespace element to appear in an RSS feed's channel, appearing in 36 percent of the feeds I...
... This seems to imply that ISO3166 codes are not permitted in <language>. This is untrue. ISO3166 are valid HTML language codes and thus are also valid RSS...
Ralpha, Excellent point. Rogers, I didn't see any use of dc:language in the item. Did you check for it? Thanks, Randy Charles Morin http://www.therssweblog.com...
... Yep. Every element I found is in those reports, with the exception of some weird invalid stuff like item-body, item-div and their children. I didn't find...
... Hmm. Should I start? I needed a way to do this for http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2007/video.rss More generally, is there a best practices document ...
There isn't a podcast specific best practices documents. The RSS profile is for both podcast and non-podcast feeds. If someone was willing to compile a best...
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Charles Iliya Krempeaux
supercanadian@...
Jun 6, 2007 2:01 am
Hey Ralph, There's a number of things we still need, when it comes podcasts and vlogs/vodcasts. Like, how do you tell if an RSS feed contains text, video, or...
Hi Charles! ... It's still hard even after you've looked inside! ... We pushed your media-hinting proposal for application/ogg for a while, and quite liked it...
Maybe I didn't understand, but why do you need to know if an RSS feed contains text, video or audio without actually looking inside? Thanks and confused, Randy...
... Well, you look at the feed contents. The feed itself doesn't contain anything. It contains links to other things that may or may not be media types. You...
The proposal to revise the RSS specification has passed 5-1 with RSS Advisory Board members Matthew Bookspan, Rogers Cadenhead, Christopher Finke, Randy...
... If you look at the blog post Charles linked, it's about automated feed discovery. So the idea is to sort feed urls to the appropriate aggregator based on...
I understand the use case, but I don't understand what is preventing you from downloading the RSS file. Thanks, Randy Charles Morin http://www.therssweblog.com...
Given the fact that RSS is all about automation and that <link> tag editing is, shall we say, inconsistent at best, it seems a little bit much to expect this...
Here's what RSS 2.0 feeds are putting into dc:language, from a run of 909 feeds I checked this morning: da-dk 1 de 2 de-AT 1 de-DE 2 en 338 en-AU 5 en-CA 4 ...
... There are two issues. One is that it's an optimization. The same reason the enclosure element has type and length attributes when nothis is preventing you...
... I certainly support the notion of being stingy with network requests. The trouble is given the vast array of content being published via feeds it seems...
I suspect you'll have 5 more years of flame wars and still no solution down this path. Your best bet is to create a solution that works within the given...
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Charles Iliya Krempeaux
supercanadian@...
Jun 6, 2007 8:45 pm
Hey Ralph, ... (Group... please excuse the non-RSS stuff here... RSS stuff follows this comment block... later on in this e-mail.) == .flac I noticed that that...
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Charles Iliya Krempeaux
supercanadian@...
Jun 6, 2007 8:45 pm
XSS restrictions are often preventing you from downloading the RSS feed. (Like with in-page JavaScrit and bookmarklets.) -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc....
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Charles Iliya Krempeaux
supercanadian@...
Jun 6, 2007 8:46 pm
Hello Randy, Also, things like in-page JavaScript will NOT be able to read the contents of the RSS feed if it is on a different domain. XSS restrictions...
You can use Google's AFAX Feed API or write your own feed cache to access RSS from Javascript. http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxfeeds/ Hope this helps, Randy...
... "Containers are hard." ? ... I was just explaining what I thought Charles was on about. I think we have reached the end of my ability to argue for it. But...
... Or because lazy programmers don't take the time to make the eff'ing crap work right. It's exceptionally bad design to bend a format or protocol to stoop to...
... .flac is already established. Didn't seem breaking the .3 convention for the rest of the new ones. There was some mumbling about fat filesystems on flash...
