Comments on: RSS usability guidelines http://www.helge.at/2004/07/rss-usability-guidelines/ Helge Fahrnberger's rants and raves on social software, life, and everything Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:32:23 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: RSS usability revisted four and a half years later · Helge's Blog http://www.helge.at/2004/07/rss-usability-guidelines/comment-page-1/#comment-117625 RSS usability revisted four and a half years later · Helge's Blog Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:12:50 +0000 http://helgeat.dreamhosters.com/wp/?p=95#comment-117625 [...] and a half years ago I wrote a post called RSS Usability Guidelines (on a top position on Google ever since) which to my surprise was widely referenced in the [...] [...] and a half years ago I wrote a post called RSS Usability Guidelines (on a top position on Google ever since) which to my surprise was widely referenced in the [...]

]]> By: Advokat http://www.helge.at/2004/07/rss-usability-guidelines/comment-page-1/#comment-52651 Advokat Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:21:49 +0000 http://helgeat.dreamhosters.com/wp/?p=95#comment-52651 Hi there, This is some pretty cool thing you got going here. Gonna check out the remaining site pages to see if there are any updates. ;) Cheers! :) Hi there,

This is some pretty cool thing you got going here. Gonna check out the remaining site pages to see if there are any updates. ;)

Cheers! :)

]]> By: RSS ist (immer noch) ein Hund · Helge's Blog http://www.helge.at/2004/07/rss-usability-guidelines/comment-page-1/#comment-746 RSS ist (immer noch) ein Hund · Helge's Blog Fri, 06 Apr 2007 15:15:09 +0000 http://helgeat.dreamhosters.com/wp/?p=95#comment-746 [...] - der Feed enthält weder Links noch Bilder noch das volle Posting, unlesbar. Die drei Jahre alten RSS Usability Guidelines sind offenbar so aktuell wie eh und je. Tags: blogging , RSS Categories: Sideblog, Social [...] [...] – der Feed enthält weder Links noch Bilder noch das volle Posting, unlesbar. Die drei Jahre alten RSS Usability Guidelines sind offenbar so aktuell wie eh und je. Tags: blogging , RSS Categories: Sideblog, Social [...]

]]> By: lithium http://www.helge.at/2004/07/rss-usability-guidelines/comment-page-1/#comment-64 lithium Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://helgeat.dreamhosters.com/wp/?p=95#comment-64 Bloglines is surely the best online feed aggregator, sure Bloglines is surely the best online feed aggregator, sure

]]> By: Nico Edtinger http://www.helge.at/2004/07/rss-usability-guidelines/comment-page-1/#comment-65 Nico Edtinger Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://helgeat.dreamhosters.com/wp/?p=95#comment-65 Most of your rants can't be made because of the specs. At least in RSS 1.0 (the one I like best) the content of the description has to be pure text. This means not links, italic for quotes et cetera. If you put some escapes CDATA in it some readers will display the tags as tags. The something similar goes to the length. It shouldn't be more than 500 chars. That's not much.<br /> <br /> RSS 2 on the other hand has some of the features needed, but is not compatible to RDF, which would make it parseable by far more user-agents and if you look at it RSS is a step to the semantic web.<br /> <br /> What I like best (and do) is having one strict feed with complies with all the should-requirments, which works with all parsers. And one "transitional" (or better non-strict) which makes use of XML features like putting HTML in the description in a CDATA-tag and with more than 500 letters.<br /> <br /> But I agree with the sucky ORF Feeds. If they put a description to an item it's the same as the title, WTF? I'm looking for an other austrian news feed, but Presse and Standard don't have one.<br /> <br /> b4n Most of your rants can’t be made because of the specs. At least in RSS 1.0 (the one I like best) the content of the description has to be pure text. This means not links, italic for quotes et cetera. If you put some escapes CDATA in it some readers will display the tags as tags. The something similar goes to the length. It shouldn’t be more than 500 chars. That’s not much.

RSS 2 on the other hand has some of the features needed, but is not compatible to RDF, which would make it parseable by far more user-agents and if you look at it RSS is a step to the semantic web.

What I like best (and do) is having one strict feed with complies with all the should-requirments, which works with all parsers. And one "transitional" (or better non-strict) which makes use of XML features like putting HTML in the description in a CDATA-tag and with more than 500 letters.

But I agree with the sucky ORF Feeds. If they put a description to an item it’s the same as the title, WTF? I’m looking for an other austrian news feed, but Presse and Standard don’t have one.

b4n

]]> By: Michael Schuster (Knallgrau) http://www.helge.at/2004/07/rss-usability-guidelines/comment-page-1/#comment-66 Michael Schuster (Knallgrau) Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://helgeat.dreamhosters.com/wp/?p=95#comment-66 thank you very much for paying that much attention to our newsfeed ;-) <br /> we fixed that and it should be working with every new story posted.<br /> <br /> my 2 cents: I am using feeddemon, which is an excellent newsreader, desktop-based but really nicely done. thank you very much for paying that much attention to our newsfeed ;-)
we fixed that and it should be working with every new story posted.

my 2 cents: I am using feeddemon, which is an excellent newsreader, desktop-based but really nicely done.

]]> By: Anol http://www.helge.at/2004/07/rss-usability-guidelines/comment-page-1/#comment-67 Anol Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://helgeat.dreamhosters.com/wp/?p=95#comment-67 Hi There <br /> <br /> Thanks for pointing it out - It never occured to me, 'cause I never subscribed to my own feed!<br /> <br /> Could you please help me to fix this - I am..well..a novice in RSS / XML.<br /> <br /> Please help/suggest some resource (MT specific)<br /> <br /> Thanks in advance!<br /> <br /> Anol<br /> ------------------------------------------<br /> "can't distinguish the publisher's words from the quoted text. (sometimes when the punctuation is missing the text becomes even unreadable, as quotation and the rest of the article form new, senseless sentences." Hi There

Thanks for pointing it out – It never occured to me, ’cause I never subscribed to my own feed!

Could you please help me to fix this – I am..well..a novice in RSS / XML.

Please help/suggest some resource (MT specific)

Thanks in advance!

Anol
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"can’t distinguish the publisher’s words from the quoted text. (sometimes when the punctuation is missing the text becomes even unreadable, as quotation and the rest of the article form new, senseless sentences."

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