Excerpts from Joshua Bronson's message of Thu Mar 12 10:29:18 -0400 2009: > 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?
Yes, please, having RSS would be great! :) -Nick -- Archive: http://www.openplans.org/projects/melkjug/lists/melkjug-development-list/archive/2009/03/1236872000024 To unsubscribe send an email with subject "unsubscribe" to [email protected]. Please contact [email protected] for questions.
