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RSS changes for the blog
October 29, 2003
If you’re reading this entry in an aggregator, it means that you’ve already changed your link to TNL.net. Part of the logic for the change (over which I agonized for a while as I believe in backward compatibility) is the fact that until today, the main feed and the section feeds were generated in different ways, making it more difficult to maintain and update. I promise that the current set of changes is the last you will see.
If you’ve subscribed to the main feed but want a more detailed approach (ie. you’re only interested in my entries on a particular subject), I’ve got good news for you. Feeds are now available for each independent section. I’ve created a new page detailing all the syndication feeds now available on TNL.net. Part of the logic for the new approach is that, if I create a new category in the blog, you will be able to subscribe just that category. This approach allows you to pick and choose which subjects you are interested in.
Another new thing is that TNL.net now support CDF, an outdated Microsoft format that can be used to receive offline information in Internet Explorer. This is only of interest to people using Internet explorer to read stuff offline but I figured that it was a good thing to support since I supported pretty much any other syndication formats out there (at least every one that is used by aggregators).
The new approach will allow me to add new feeds based on new formats when those appear. It’s a much more flexible approach and allows me to move forward with some other plans for TNL.net.
Last but not least, you will notice that the RSS 1.0 and 2.0 feeds are now styled. This is largely an attempt to make the information even easier to read. An interesting discovery during this experiment is that the delta between RSS 1.0 and 2.0 is so great that it is impossible to make the two feeds look exactly alike.
