[Sigia-l] web site design vs RSS

[Ziya Oz]

Nick Hansen:

(I don't appreciate your posting private emails on the list, BTW)

> But now you're essentially browsing the web

No, you absolutely are not.

> Lynx gets me to the  information quicker and with less frippery than most of
> the over- designed sites out there.

Please. The rest of the planet has moved on from Lynx and Gopher. Get over
it. 

> Why saddle RSS with the same feature set?

OK, I let you read this again:

>> If you think through this problem just a tiny bit, you can see that the CSS
>> necessary for the presentation part can in fact be ignored by the client
>> feed reader (and be substituted locally, you know, just as on the
>> Internets) if so chosen. The protocol can also include a single bit to
>> signal if the CSS should be retrieved at all or not. This is a no-brainer.

Notice where it says, a single flag bit (IF A USER SO CHOOSES) could easily
IGNORE the CSS part altogether and just let him look at its text-only glory.

But for those WHO WANT IT, that single bit flag again, can offer the option
of presentation style as the content provider intended it. Absolutely no new
technology or learning curve, pure CSS, as simple as a doorknob.

Data/info without presentation is nothing. Virtually all RSS readers come
with multiple local styles to begin with. So it all comes down to, do you
want to see it in some random (and perhaps inappropriate) style or the one
feed provider prefers you see it in? WITH A CHOICE for either.

Now, I could go on here giving you a sanctimonious lecture regarding the
virtues of choice, but I think enough posturing has already been done.

-- 
Ziya

It depends.
If it didn't, you'd be out of a job.