RSS extensions, not really simple
November 23rd, 2005
Anyone that’s heard the hype (C|Net, eWeek, BetaNews), or read the sepc on Microsoft’s “Simple Sharing Extensions for RSS and OPML”, aka. SSE, will realize that it also adds lots of complexity to RSS.The real question is, why RSS? Microsoft’s “extension” is more like a whole new XML beast than RSS.
Why? Publicity. RSS is fairly well known, so why say something like XML-SSE, when you can say “extended RSS”, or fib and call it just “RSS”? The fact is, THIS ISN’T RSS, it might somehow be based on it, but it’s not Really Simple Syndication in any way.
This is just marketing hype by Microsoft, and I hope people won’t get sucked into saying “Microsoft is supporting RSS standards now”…JScript…need I say more?
