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It’s just data

RSS Content Type

Tue 21 Jan 2003 at 16:04

Tim Bray: At the moment, there doesn't seem to be much agreement about what Media-type to use for RSS files. Userland, which is kind of the RSS industry leader, serves them as text/xml. Infoworld, a fairly sophisticated tech pub, uses text/html. Mark Pilgrim, a popular blogger who thinks really hard about these things, uses application/rss+xml.

It seems to me that it should match what you use on the link tag.

Crossroads on Tuesday

Tue 21 Jan 2003 at 15:12

Tuesday, the 28th of January, at or shortly after 6pm PST a bunch of ne'erdowells will decend on an unsuspecting Crossroads food court. This is totally adhoc - no invitation required.

Consider yourself warned.

Comments a la TrackBacks

Tue 21 Jan 2003 at 13:34

Rael Dornfest: Why not use the MovableType standalone TrackBack implemention as a comments system?

Given that I only had to made some minor tweaks to my comment system to make myself trackback enabled, it only makes sense that the reverse is true!

Universal Canvas

Tue 21 Jan 2003 at 11:51

DJ Adams: It seems that beyond carrying syndication information, RSS is a very useful and flexible way to get all sorts of application data pushed to a user over time.