RSS 0.9 RDF was pivotal to RSS 0.9, (Remote web server)
RSS 0.9 RDF was pivotal to RSS 0.9, as the name RDF Site Summary indicates. After some resistance to the perceived complexity of RDF, RSS 0.91 made an appearance. RSS 0.91 The term RSS 0.91 is used for two distinctly different flavors of RSS. First, historically, was the Netscape version, which was RDF Site Summary. A little later, when UserLand became involved, RSS was then Really Simple Syndication. The UserLand version of RSS 0.91, which is described in more detail in Chapter 8, continues in widespread use. It was designed to be simple to use by the standards of June 2000. Its simplicity made it easy for automated tools to create RSS 0.91 feeds which, no doubt, contributed to its initial and continuing popularity. RSS 1.0 The way that RSS 0.9x progressed, or failed to progress according to your viewpoint, meant that many in the information feed community who had been attracted by the potential of the RDF-based Netscape flavor of RSS were looking for a flavor of RSS that had the metadata and semantic Web possibilities that RDF brought to the scene. The enthusiasm for the possibilities for more-sophisticated use of metadata than was possible with RSS 0.91 led to the development of the RDF-based RSS 1.0. RSS 1.0 is described in more detail in Chapter 9. RSS 0.92, 0.93, and 0.94 Three further 0.9x versions of RSS were specified by UserLand. Of those three versions, version 0.92 was released only a couple of weeks after the RSS-Dev Working Group had released the RSS 1.0 specification. At that point UserLand was championing RSS 0.92, Really Simple Syndication, and the RSS-Dev Working Group was championing RSS 1.0, RDF Site Summary. By any realistic criteria the RSS world was a political minefield and technically, at least for the newcomer to the minefield, a confusing mess. Given the politics and differences in technical approach of the different versions of RSS it is amazing that there has been such rapid growth in adoption of information feeds. The relative simplicity for an aggregator author creating tools that can accept feeds in essentially any of the flavors of RSS (and later Atom) has likely been a significant factor ensuring the survival of the varied formats used for information feed documents. Versions 0.93 and 0.94 are essentially of historical interest only. RSS 2.0 RSS 2.0 was released in September 2002. Its lineage is the UserLand 0.9x family. A newcomer to the field might assume that RSS 2.0 was the replacement for RSS 1.0, which is not the case. The two specifications exist in parallel. RDF was part of RSS 0.9 and RSS 1.0. RSS 0.91, 0.92, 0.93, 0.94, and 2.0 did not use RDF. 19 Where Did Information Feeds Start?
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