Karl Dubost wrote: > 1999. RSS is created > 2001. Dave Winer markets the XML orange button everywhere. > 2002. People tries to think about a mechanism > for autodiscovery and creates it to not > clutter the UI and improves the usability. > <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" > title="RSS" href="url/to/rss/file"> > 2006. Browser implements it in their UI 2006. Realised it was a mistake to require duplication of data in the head and body using both <link> and <a>. Defined how to link to feeds using <a> [1|2] and began implementing [3]. > => Metadata in the head implemented in the UI for better usability. Metadata in the head was a trade-off between ease of implementation and duplication of data. [1] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#feed [2] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#alternate [3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=362864 -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/Received on Friday, 30 March 2007 06:20:38 GMT
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