[microformats-discuss] Evaulating RSS per the microformats principles.

Andreas Haugstrup solitude at solitude.dk
Sun Aug 14 12:51:48 PDT 2005


On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 21:10:39 +0200, Michal Migurski <mike at stamen.com>  
wrote:

> There are no technical reasons that RSS couldn't be used to store  
> archives or contain more than the latest entries, only social ones.  
> Interestingly, using software such as Blosxom gives you this RSS  
> archiving for free, e.g. http://mike.teczno.com/notes/2005/07/index.rss  
> vs. http://mike.teczno.com/notes/2005/07/. Do other blogging programs do  
> this? My experience with MT or WP has been minimal.

But I can't use that RSS archive for anything. I can't read it (or I'll  
have to add it to a subscription list to read it just once). I can't link  
to it. For it to be usable as an archive format RSS readers will have to  
reinvent every aspect of the webbrowser - with an added RSS wrapper.  
That's more tha a little silly.

- Andreas
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