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* Jeffrey Ricker | | Why did Netscape feel it necessary to invent RSS rather than use CDF | as Microsoft, DataChannel, PointCast, etc. do? When I first started looking at RSS I immediately noticed two things: a) it's incredibly simple (too simple, in fact) b) it's probably the most widely supported XML application so far, both in terms of software and content To me this smells like worse-is-better again, and I think that's a good answer to your question. I also think it's a useful lesson for the future. The success of most non-local XML applications is entirely dependent on their adoption by content providers, and previous experience seems to show that that very much depends on how easy it is to support. I would also conjecture that in most cases the software support depends on the content support. --Lars M. xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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