Like Steve Ivy I’m wondering exactly what Dave Winer is thinking with RSS 0.92. Okay I remember him complaining about how efforts to move forward with a new RSS implementation (or an extension of RSS 0.91) were getting bogged down and so he was striking out on his own. Fine — sometimes that’s the best way to innovate, and Winer certainly knows how to innovate.
But the RSS 0.92 that are showing up on Adam Curry’s web site and elsewhere are a move backwards in my opinion. As Ivy notes, Winer seems to have ditched the “title” and “link” tags in favor of shoving everything into the “description” field. Not only will that break existing applications that use RSS, but it also provides less flexibility when it comes around to displaying the RSS feed.
Is this where Winer intends RSS 0.92 to go, or is this just a small bug in the way Radio Userland or whatever application Curry and Winer are using to create the RSS feed?