RSS to Atom Transition

Authored by Michael Pate on December 10th, 2003 at 1:07 PM

After reading some of the disccussion that occured over the last week over the adoption of Atom feeds in the face of the growing acceptance of RSS 2.0, I decided to make my contribution to the trend.
After some consideration of various formats, I have decided that the version of RSS I find most suitable for my needs is RSS 0.90. There is a certain elegance in the simplicity of it. And it seems largely free of the political baggage of some of the later versions. You can get the original template. Tristan is doing some really neat things with various RSS versions including the legendary predecessor, CDF.
I have also implemented my first Atom Feed using the 0.2 template. And even whipped up an Atom Icon for it. I would submit to the usual depository but I think I will wait for 1.0. Feel free to steal it if you like. I want to take a take a stab at what Jason is doing with CSS sometime.
I have not made a final decision what feeds will be supported when Atom reaches 1.0. I will have to make a decision then.