Dark Side of Postel’s “law”
Simon Fell’s weblog contains the following line:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Simon Fell > Its just code" href="http://www.pocketsoap.com/weblog/feed.atom">
feedfinder.py, atomautodiscovery.py, and feedparser.py version 4.1 will fail to pick it up.
nightly feedparser.py picks it up, as does html5lib.
Of course, many that can find Simon’s feed will fail to parse it.
There is a dark side to Postel’s “law”