- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 13:11:32 +0200
On 22/5/09 12:36, Toby Inkster wrote: > Eduard Pascual wrote: > >> For manually authored pages and feeds things would be different; but >> are there really a significant ammount of such cases out there? I >> can't say I have seen the entire web (who can?), but among what I have >> seen, I have never encountered any hand authored feed, except for code >> examples and similar "experimental" stuff. > > Surely this proves the need for a way of extracting feeds from HTML? > > You never see manually written feeds because people can't be bothered to > manually write feeds. So the people who manually author HTML simply > don't bother providing feeds at all. > > If an HTML page can *be* a feed, this allows manually authored HTML > pages to be subscribed to in feed readers. FWIW the W3C homepage works this way since ~2000, http://www.w3.org/2000/08/w3c-synd/ cheers, Dan
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