[Sigia-l] web site design vs RSS

[Ziya Oz]

Paola Kathuria:

> I think that what might be happening is that people are still
> thinking of RSS as a plain text teaser; I know that's how it
> was intended originally.

Exactly. IOW, the protocol should have been more content/purpose neutral
with an optional, well-understood, simple method to take care of
presentation via CSS, for any kind of end-point device.

> Whereas I think of RSS as just another vehicle for content, like the browser.

You see, this opens up possibilities.

> I am sure that Tim Berners-Lee didn't anticipate e-commerce
> when he invented the WWW protocols. Is it a bad thing that
> the web grew into something much more than hyperlinked text
> with no graphics and very little formatting?

Frankly, in the year of our lord 2007, I'm puzzled there are still people
who are stuck in a text-only world. Yes, there are proper occasions for
simplified, brief textual presentation for rapid cognitive payoff but you
can't put back in the rich presentation genie.
 
> And, in the same way that styling (was developed and) moved
> out of HTML for pages, so it must inevitably happen for RSS.

Unless of course you can manage to panic yourself with imaginary problems of
misunderstood technical details.

-- 
Ziya

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