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* Lisa Rein | | I'm having trouble understanding why or if RSS even matters For me that's very simple. I like to keep track of news from lots of different web sites, but I _really_ dislike having to keep revisiting each site all the time to see if there is anything new. (Especially with sites that are rarely updated, or dog-slow, like slashdot.) The nice thing about RSS is that for the sites that support it it completely removes that need. Instead I can just tell my RSS viewer to get new stories when I feel like an update and it will list the new stories nicely with the source etc in the client window. Then I remove the ones that don't seem interesting and make the client open the interesting ones in my browser. In fact, this is so nice that I notice that I tend to just skip the non-RSS sites, and I also note that it allows me to keep track of more sites than the old model. The next feature for the client is probably going to be filters, so that I don't have to see stuff that I know a priori won't be of interest. | (despite its apparent level of widespread adoption) and Well, that's IMHO the other reason why it matters. It's a first example of an application like the global XML applications that were envisioned when this whole XML thing started that has succeeded in terms of adoption. Personally I think that is very important. | am trying to determine its level of inclusion in my books/classes. I use it extensively in talks and classes, and am finding that it seems to go down well, probably because: - anyone can understand what it's about - the documents are so simple - when presented in the right way the utility becomes obvious --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 unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe 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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