http://steves.seasidelife.com/2004/12/22/rss-and-the-benefits-of-a-standard-format/ I'm Steve Richards a strategist and all round tech enthusiast working on enterprise desktop, application delivery and collaboration solutions. I work from home by the coast in the North West of England. All the views expressed in this blog are my own. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:43:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://steves.seasidelife.com/2004/12/22/rss-and-the-benefits-of-a-standard-format/comment-page-1/#comment-103 Anonymous Thu, 23 Dec 2004 11:54:00 +0000 http://steves.seasidelife.com/2004/12/22/rss-and-the-benefits-of-a-standard-format/#comment-103 I suspect simplicity of format and ubiquity of transport/http and web server infrastructure were the key to the explosion of RSS. Libraries for ease of manipulation of XML probably helped a little. I suspect simplicity of format and ubiquity of transport/http and web server infrastructure were the key to the explosion of RSS. Libraries for ease of manipulation of XML probably helped a little.

]]> http://steves.seasidelife.com/2004/12/22/rss-and-the-benefits-of-a-standard-format/comment-page-1/#comment-102 Anonymous Thu, 23 Dec 2004 11:06:00 +0000 http://steves.seasidelife.com/2004/12/22/rss-and-the-benefits-of-a-standard-format/#comment-102 I still cannot comprehend exactly what made XML and its derivatives so immensely more successful than previous attempts at standardisation, including ASN.1 (used by SNMP) and EDIFACT (used by EDI). Simplicity? Generality/versatility? What? Certainly not extensibility; older attempts were 'extensible'. I still cannot comprehend exactly what made XML and its derivatives so immensely more successful than previous attempts at standardisation, including ASN.1 (used by SNMP) and EDIFACT (used by EDI). Simplicity? Generality/versatility? What? Certainly not extensibility; older attempts were ‘extensible’.

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