On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Nicholas Bergson-Shilcock < [email protected]> wrote:
> Excerpts from Joshua Bronson's message of Wed Mar 11 23:18:12 -0400 2009: > > Phil noticed that the link to get a feed for a preset points to > ...atom.xml > > (which in fact is atom) but the link text reads "RSS" (doubtless because > > "RSS" has become synonymous with "feed" both to people who don't know the > > difference and to people who do know but don't care to split hairs in the > > wrong context). Melkjug isn't the only software perpetuating this > ambiguity > > -- Safari's blue "RSS" button in the address bar comes to mind -- but the > > question is do we care? My personal inclination is to change it to "Atom" > or > > "Feed" but if this sacrifices popular understanding for correctness it's > not > > worth it. > > +1 to changing the name. I was tricked by this the other day while trying > to > pull my jug's feed into a WordPress install using the KB Advanced RSS > Widget. I > was wondering why it wasn't working until I actually looked at the feed and > realized it wasn't RSS :) > > Also, I take it this means Melkjug doesn't currently expose an RSS feed? Correct, we publish atom only at the moment. Is this a request for RSS?
