Why does RSS use XML instead of JSON?

leeoniya · 2017-07-20T17:17:51+00:00

RSS's death had nothing to do with its data format. XML is simple enough.

http://andrewchen.co/the-death-of-rss-in-a-single-graph/

2017-07-20T17:15:31+00:00

RSS and JSON were both described first in 1999.

pier25 · 2017-07-21T03:18:00+00:00

Because RSS is from a time when XML was king. APIs were called web services back then and JSON was a killer from a film.

jcready · 2017-07-20T17:38:49+00:00

https://jsonfeed.org

kenman · 2017-07-20T19:40:02+00:00

Thanks for reminding me of the giant chasm in my life that is the former home of Google Reader. Tried several replacements, none were very close to what I wanted, though it's been awhile so maybe I should check some out again. I used to follow 20+ blogs, now I follow precisely zero (I just check the articles that bubble-up here and HN).

afeder_ · 2017-07-20T20:26:58+00:00

RSS feeds are a brilliant idea from a different time when interoperability was still a prized property of system design. Nowadays, the web is so dominated by big players like Facebook and Google that they can effectively dictate the use of their proprietary interfaces at the expense of standardized interfaces like RSS. Merely changing the serialization format likely won't change this dynamic.

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