Scripting News: Friday, January 5, 2024
Friday, January 5, 2024 The RSS 2.0 roadmap is imho one of my best bits of writing, and has stood up pretty well. "RSS is by no means a perfect format, but it is very popular and widely supported. Having a settled spec is something RSS has needed for a long time. The purpose of this work is to help it become a unchanging thing, to foster growth in the market that is developing around it, and to clear the path for innovation in new syndication formats. Therefore, the RSS spec is, for all practical purposes, frozen at version 2.0.1. We anticipate possible 2.0.2 or 2.0.3 versions, etc. only for the purpose of clarifying the specification, not for adding new features to the format. Subsequent work should happen in modules, using namespaces, and in completely new syndication formats, with new names." # I am going to ask for a discussion about the Wikipedia page for RSS , because I think it misses the significance of RSS , how it became a big thing. It had little
