Comments on: On mobile readership, and partial RSS feeds http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2008/12/19/on-mobile-readership-and-partial-rss-feeds A permanent record for what's interesting today - this is my live journal Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:35:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: kaeru http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2008/12/19/on-mobile-readership-and-partial-rss-feeds/comment-page-1#comment-137320 kaeru Sat, 20 Dec 2008 07:49:25 +0000 http://www.bytebot.net/blog/?p=1241#comment-137320 I've refrained because RSS 1.0 and 2.0 don't really have a "body" tag and instead a "full RSS feed" is actually entire contents dumped into the "description" tag. Great for planets and readers, not so great for other sites that may just want the description. Maybe this is the reason most software does not provide "full RSS" or body tags because of a limited standard. I know that you're using "full RSS feeds" as a general term. On a technical level, I'd rather like to see Atom feeds in which description and body fields are filled out appropriately. I’ve refrained because RSS 1.0 and 2.0 don’t really have a “body” tag and instead a “full RSS feed” is actually entire contents dumped into the “description” tag. Great for planets and readers, not so great for other sites that may just want the description.

Maybe this is the reason most software does not provide “full RSS” or body tags because of a limited standard.

I know that you’re using “full RSS feeds” as a general term. On a technical level, I’d rather like to see Atom feeds in which description and body fields are filled out appropriately.

]]> By: James http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2008/12/19/on-mobile-readership-and-partial-rss-feeds/comment-page-1#comment-137319 James Sat, 20 Dec 2008 05:23:15 +0000 http://www.bytebot.net/blog/?p=1241#comment-137319 IME, the main reason people give for not having full feeds is to stop splogs using their content. IME, the main reason people give for not having full feeds is to stop splogs using their content.

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