Comments on: Don’t make me choose a feed format! http://trevorturk.wordpress.com/2008/12/07/dont-make-me-choose-a-feed-format/ A chess-playing machine of the late 18th century, promoted as an automaton but later proved a hoax. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:13:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Timothy O'Conne http://trevorturk.wordpress.com/2008/12/07/dont-make-me-choose-a-feed-format/#comment-739 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:11:16 +0000 http://almosteffortless.com/?p=872#comment-739 Also agreed. I was actually just thinking about this moments ago in the context of using the link rel="alternate" tag to do an end-run around exactly this problem. Basically, I concluded that XML 1.0 and RSS 2.0 encoded in UTF8 were the de facto standard and that providing the other alternatives was a waste of everyone's time.

I mean, I'm sure there are good reasons to use Atom, but when you're offering multiple alternatives for this, you're making more work for yourself and annoying the 90% of people who honestly couldn't care less what syndication format you use.

]]> By: Akhil Bansal http://trevorturk.wordpress.com/2008/12/07/dont-make-me-choose-a-feed-format/#comment-738 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 03:58:37 +0000 http://almosteffortless.com/?p=872#comment-738 I agree with it.

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