Comments on: REST: is RSS the HTML for data?

By: Quoderat » More on RSS as the HTML for data …

Quoderat » More on RSS as the HTML for data … — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:19:16 +0000

[…] A short while ago, I reluctantly acknowledged that RSS 2.0 will likely fill the same role for data that HTML fills for documents, providing a single, shared format across the web (the big missing piece of the puzzle for REST apps). Now, it appears that someone a lot smarter than I am — no one less than Adam Bosworth — is suggesting exactly the same thing. […]

By: Read/Write Web

Read/Write Web — Mon, 09 May 2005 08:48:46 +0000

Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 2-8 May 2005
This week: business folk getting interested in Web 2.0, Adam Curry podcasting
from 2.0 perspective, cool Web 2.0 ‘mini-apps’, wrap-up of the adverts in RSS debate,
Bosworth’s Web of Data…

By: Danny

Danny — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 16:42:41 +0000

What exactly does using RSS 2.0 gain you over using an arbitrary XML language?

If there is to be a more widely used common data format for the Web, the barest minimum I would expect is a means to identify the identifiers of the Web, i.e. URIs. Personally I’d opt for something semantically richer 😉

By: David Megginson

David Megginson — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 12:20:14 +0000

Atom may be too little, too late — something that does 10-20% more than RSS isn’t enough to make people switch when RSS 2.0 is already so well established. I’d prefer POX+XLink+xml:id, personally, but to continue the HTML analogy, remember that HTML came first, and the W3C came much later.

By: Anne

Anne — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 10:24:41 +0000

I sure hope some specified, official format, like Atom, will do this instead of RSS 2.0.

By: Ken MacLeod

Ken MacLeod — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 23:26:04 +0000

I’m seeing the growth of POX, with AJAX and XMLHttpRequest currently doing the most pushing. If ECMAScript for XML (E4X) starts getting traction, it’ll be a slam dunk (and hopefully similar grammars will make it into other favorite languages).