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by James Robertson.
Original Post: Gordon comments on the RSS imbrogolio
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In the two links that Dare pointed to, I identified three problems with RSS 2.0:
The spec's ambiguous about what can go into <description>, in particular, the practice of putting in escaped HTML is considered a bad idea. Tim Bray endorses either plain text or well formed xhtml; both seem like reasonable options.
The handling of relative URIs needs to be clarified.
It's not clear whether the tag should be used for a permalink or an external link.
When I realized that, I wondered what the controversy was about - it seems like these issues could be ironed out fairly quickly and Echo could get on with putting together a weblogging API.
Dare also mentions politics as being a driver behind Echo. Evidently, this is what the controversy's about. I think that it's a terrible thing to even tacitly admit this sentiment into your mission. I've never yet found software that can fix interpersonal relationships. When all's said and done and Echo is a reality, the same people will still be around, disliking each other.
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