[ crosspost su VoIT ]

Sono molto impegnato in questi giorni, ma un minuto da dedicare alla piattaforma semantica di blogging che uso va perso:
sembra che gli hacker dietro WordPress vogliano togliere il supporto ufficiale ai feeds Atom e RSS1 e RSS0.92…

RSS2 and Atom are both competent feed formats. All feed readers these days are built to understand one or both of them. It’s time we ditched RSS .92 and RDF, they’ve been bloating the WordPress core for too long. If they’re desperately needed a plugin can provide.

Ora per un software che si proclama come “state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform” mi pare un colpo veramente dannoso…

Tra l’altro ho come la netta impressione che qualcuno sia stato fuorviato dai numeri immaginando che le vecchie versioni di RSS fossero solo vecchie, invece che tutt’altre tecnologie…

Senza contare l’importanza di RDF, che nel 2006 vedra’ credo un nuovo sviluppo di tools sempre piu’ usabili…

Ci sono un paio di ottimi post da segnalare sulla questione:

• WordPress to drop RDF / RSS 1.0
  

  hope that RDF 1.0 will not be dropped – and there are many Semantic Web hackers who are using WordPress and the RDF feed that it produces.

• 3 Reasons Why WordPress Should Not Drop RSS 1.0
  

  Dropping RSS 1.0 can’t be justified just because all RSS readers today support both RSS 1.0 and RSS 2.0. Granted that RSS readers today consume and process feeds of different formats pretty much the same way.
  However, it’s difficult to say whether this phnomenom will continue to hold in the future as people gain better knowledge about the use of RDF on the Web. Perhaps new Semantic Web technologies will open new doors to the consumption of RDF (RSS 1.0), which will enable us to build more smart web applications.

  As a WordPress user, I like to have options. I want to be able to choose the format of RSS feeds that I publish. I don’t want to be told what format is the “standard” format and what format is the “right” format.

• WordPress and RSS 1.0
  

  I think that’s a mistake, having the RSS 1.0 available means there is a direct RDF representation of the data.
  There is very active RDF development outside the syndication domain (e.g. this resource list or this), and for WP to cut the direct interoperability cord would be a retrograde step.
  Ok, RSS 1.0 may not be the ideal RDF representation – RSS 1.1 or an RDF/XML serialization of Atom/OWL would be preferable, primarily because they’re both based on the revised RDF specs which avoid the ugliness of escaped HTML in content. But RSS 1.0 is supported by virtually every feed reader, and mass deployment of cleaner RSS RDF/XML isn’t likely in the near future.

Sull’ultimo link segnalato e’ da vedere l’interessante tabella comparativa dei vari formati di feed syndication…

Speriamo la questione si risolva…