Re: Can someone explain what's so great about RSS?

On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 14:14:46 -0700 papercrane@gmail.com (Justin Patrin) wrote: > I've been seeing RSS gaining more and more popularity over the > last years and I simply do not understand why. Why is RSS so > great? What does it do that is so great and wonderful? The only > thing it seems to have over anything else is that it's using > XMLwith a standardized format. A standart format (and usually respected) is already something wonderfull in this worlds. > Other than that, RSS seems to me > to be not any more useful than, say, a daily e-mail with news (or > whatever) from whatever you're getting the RSS from. Imagine you have hundred mail news subscribtions, each of them uses another fancy layout and formats. You do not want want to read all the news but headers and summaries, or using some custom filters. It may be possible to do it but not in an easy way, rss allows that, in an easy way, both to filter or display. Another advantage of RSS, you do not have to send (bandwidth, resources,...), people fetch it, when they want, if they want. --Pierre