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Re: Saving Bandwidth on RSS Feed Details

Rogers — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:52:04 GMT

... You're right. If this proposal gets any further, I will switch the date-time format to RFC 3339.

Re: Saving Bandwidth on RSS Feed Details

Aristotle Pagaltzis — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:25:03 GMT

... It’s not just ease of parsing, it’s also 2- vs 4-digit years (are you using RFC 822 or RFC 2822 format?), and the presence of redundant information

Re: Saving Bandwidth on RSS Feed Details

Rogers — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:17:49 GMT

... By "this info" you mean the date-time of last update, correct? I can see why it would be better to make a HEAD request to the feed details feed to

Re: Saving Bandwidth on RSS Feed Details

Rogers — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:19:04 GMT

... My thinking was that because the namespace was centered on RSS, it would be better to use its date-time format. If it was expanded to support Atom, I would

Re: Saving Bandwidth on RSS Feed Details

Aristotle Pagaltzis — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:36:03 GMT

... Since this is in a new namespace, is there a reason to prefer RFC 3339 over RFC 822 format here? Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis //

Re: Saving Bandwidth on RSS Feed Details

James Holderness — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:15:53 GMT

... I would think you'd still need to send the full feed by default for backwards compatibility with clients that don't understand your new minimal format. And

Re: Saving Bandwidth on RSS Feed Details

Bill Kearney — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:33:30 GMT

In theory this info is already coming with the feed as part of the HTTP headers. Use the data that's already present. But since that data is often ignored (and

Re: Saving Bandwidth on RSS Feed Details

Rogers — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:40:59 GMT

I posted this idea on my blog [1], and Antone Roundy had a better idea than ttl -- putting the date and time the feed details were last updated in the element,

Saving Bandwidth on RSS Feed Details

Rogers — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:37:59 GMT

With the current interest in rssCloud and PubSubHubbub (PuSH), I've been thinking about all the bandwidth that's consumed by the RSS elements that describe the

Comments on RSS Namespace draft

Mason — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:16:06 GMT

Hello, everybody. Here are some comments on the draft rss-namespace document posted at http://www.rssboard.org/rss-namespace 1.) The Introduction says: "This

Re: Multiple Links with Asterisks?

randymorin — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:23:21 GMT

Nate, Believe it or not, that's just one big weird-ass looking singular link, not multiple links. There's nothing in RSS about having multiple links in the

Multiple Links with Asterisks?

nrutman — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:17:54 GMT

I'm working on parsing some RSS 2.0 content, and I've found that several popular RSS 2.0 documents have multiple links embedded in one tag separated by

Re: XML namespace for repurposing RSS elements?

Mason — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:07:17 GMT

Hey, that's really great! (Turns out there were many good responses to my earlier post that I missed because my subscription notifications to this list are not

Re: XML namespace for repurposing RSS elements?

Rogers Cadenhead — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:30:02 GMT

Randy Charles Morin and I have been working on draft documentation for an RSS namespace. Here's a link to it: http://www.rssboard.org/rss-namespace As the docs

XML namespace for repurposing RSS elements?

Mason — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:07:32 GMT

Hi folks-- Didn't get any response before, so just wanted to try one more time: Is anyone at RssBoard interested in providing an XML namespace for RSS 2.0, for