RSS Conformance Issues
Don
Box: RSS Heck (not quite Hell). FWIW, my take:
- Agreed. Titles in RSS are as important as subject lines in e-mails.
- Agreed. See my RSS 2.0 feed. Until recently, my descriptions there were simply my content with the html removed. As of this morning (and I'm still debugging this), there is a separate excerpt.
- Unfortunately, this will have to wait until XHTML gets adopted more widely.
- Agreed. Some blogs even have the permalinks encoded and embedded in the description!
- This is my biggest pet peeve too. The biggest problem I have seen is something called smart quotes - you may have heard of it? It's a dumb idea.