The other day I wondered if the ugly RSS output coming from Adam Curry’s web site was a bug or a feature. Today Dave Winer confirmed on Scripting News that it’s a feature. Yuck.
I also have to add a couple of sections to my RSS 0.92 spec. The “bionic” RSS files we’re producing do not conform to the 0.91 spec because the items don’t have links and titles, just descriptions. However this will not break the compatibility statement for 0.92 (whew!) because it will still be true that every 0.91 file is also a valid 0.92 file. I also want to bust the draconian limit of 15 items per channel.
I can completely understand Winer adding additional elements to his RSS 0.92, but why go to the extreme of not including the link and title tags?
This seems like A Very Bad Idea(TM).