RasterWeb!Gasp! What’s this? Does your aggregator no longer show links to Mark’s entries? Well, ain’t that the funky-fresh thing…
Hacking AmphetaDesk required about 5 minutes of my time to make it support guid’s for linking to an entry…
Have I mentioned the values of open-source software lately?
Let’s have fun!
(or something like that…)
Did you know that An item must not include both foo and bar?
That means <pubDate> and <dc:date> can’t be used together. Which really seems to mean that you can use namespaces to extend RSS 2.0, but there might be conflicts, and to resolve the conflicts you can either remove the namespace’d element or remove the core element. Now, my understanding as of the last few days was that we should always present the core elements, and if needed, add in namespace’d elements.
I tried that, and it didn’t work.
Honestly I’m not sure why it doesn’t work. Is my understanding wrong? Is the validator wrong? Who knows?
Anyway we continue to attempt to learn more about all this, and we happily present feeds in 0.91, 1.0. and 2.0 formats. The 0.91 is almost as old as the Netscape Network thingy, and the 2.0 appeared last year (following Mark’s lead) and the 1.0 came about a few months back when pudge went all nutzo over people/places that provide a feed that is not a 1.0 feed. (Morbus created a simple 2.0 -> 1.0 conversion script for that, this is all XML right, and it should be trivial to convert between formats right?)
In summary: All is well in the RSS world…
Just testing some RSS 2.0 stuff, ignore this…
Is there an aggregator that supports the ability to receive an IM from blo.gs that would then trigger the aggregator to grab the feed for that site if it was X number of minutes old?
As it stands now, a site gets updated, and if they ping blo.gs, then blo.gs sends me an IM telling me the site has updated… but why tell me? Why not tell my aggregator to check if the feed it currently has cached is X number of minutes old, and if so, download the fresh version. Heck, my aggregator could then alert me that it’s got new stuff waiting.
That seems more efficient than my aggregator checking all feeds for an update once per hour, and me having to pay attention to IM’s from blo.gs
