Talk:RSS

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I think what this url RSS Help Info contains useful information about how to use RSS and may help many people to understand this. I don't know hot to add this link to the semi-protected page. If you think what this link may be useful please add this to RSS page.

Thank you, friends —Preceding unsigned comment added by Brunoeleph (talk • contribs) 12:26, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Edit request from SnowfanD, 27 September 2010

{{edit semi-protected}} add a link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change_Detection_and_Notification to the "See also" section

SnowfanD (talk) 14:53, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

Not done: That doesn't appear to be closely related to RSS. Celestra (talk) 15:47, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

Link fix

I dont want to register here, but I suggest to replace [[Icon]] → [[Computer icon|Icon]] in sentense "The feed icon used in several browsers". — 109.87.25.148 (talk) 15:52, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

I agree, so I changed it. betsythedevine (talk) 16:14, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

Edit request from 199.46.200.232, 17 November 2010

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Recommend adding a simple "RSS for Dummies" section that ....

(a) states something to the effect that "RSS allows users to avoid manually inspecting all of the websites they are interested in, and instead 'subscribe' to websites such that all new content is pushed onto their browsers when it becomes available."

(b) describes a simple subscription process.

All the techno stuff can remain for the CS crowd. Less geeky folks need an English translation & how-to.

199.46.200.232 (talk) 03:31, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

Partly done: a added to lede. If you have a specific suggestion for b please add it below. Thanks. -Atmoz (talk) 14:08, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

HTML on RSS 1.0 de facto standard citation needed

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The article says: "As a result, publishers began placing HTML markup into the titles and descriptions of items in their RSS feeds. This behavior has become expected of readers, to the point of becoming a de facto standard". Citation needed in this last point.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Arturotena (talk • contribs)

Done -Atmoz (talk) 21:30, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Push/pull?

Something the article does not address well is what does an RSS reader or aggregator do? I'm guessing it must poll the "feeds" periodically for new material. I used "feeds" in quotes as the sources do not push new information to "subscribers" but rather those "subscribers" must repeatedly poll the source sites. Is this true? The article lead, but not body, hints that's the case with "The RSS reader checks the user's subscribed feeds regularly for new work, downloads any updates that it finds, and provides a user interface to monitor and read the feeds." However, the last sentence of the lead confuses this with "RSS allows users to avoid manually inspecting all of the websites they are interested in, and instead subscribe to websites such that all new content is pushed onto their browsers when it becomes available." How do you *push* to a web browser? Is it running a Java or JavaScript app that accepts this push traffic?

Unfortunately, the lead is not well supported by citations. Neither of the sentences I mentioned above are supported. Also, the language used on many potential sources for citations uses the POV of the publisher. For example, http://www.whatisrss.com/ says "a format for delivering regularly changing web content" rather than "a standard format that allows others to read content and from that to easily extract new content." http://www.webreference.com/authoring/languages/xml/rss/intro/ says "To start all you need is content you want broadcast, ..." Really, broadcast? Am I missing something? --Marc Kupper|talk 05:58, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

For information about web feeds in general (as opposed to information about the particular format called RSS), try web feeds or web syndication. To learn more about push/pull, I also recommend Ping_(blogging) (which talks about "push") and aggregators, which talks about what RSS readers/aggregators do. betsythedevine (talk) 04:01, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Thank you Betsythedevine. Those don't quite do what I was thinking of. I suspect the bulk of the people coming to this article are more interested in what an RSS feed is rather that learning about the RSS data format. At present RSS feed redirects to this article which is mostly about the format and has an unclear, and unsourced, explanation of what a "feed" is. There is an article at "web feed" which uses the RSS icon but it more general purpose and is poorly sourced.

Before digging into possible changes I wanted to confirm that RSS itself is just a defined format. The data could be pushed or pulled and the transport protocol could be http or something else.

I also I want to confirm that 99% of the time when someone encounters phrases such as "RSS," "RSS feed," "RSS subscription", or the RSS icon then what's really going to happen is that the person will be running an "aggregator" or "reader" application on their own machine, or a third party service or web site, that periodically polls each of the feeds or "subscriptions" for new material, pulls the data, and notifies the user of new or interesting material. If it's a or a third party service or web site doing the aggregation for you then the assumption is you will poll that site or perhaps it pushes the data (e-mail for example) to you. Genuine push, such as Ping_(blogging), is rare and either is done between RSS sources and third party aggregators or that the person needs to run an application that is set up to receive the pushed data. --Marc Kupper|talk 21:21, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Add information about RSS 0.99

Please add information about RSS (Robust Site Syndication) 0.99. It's official site is here: [1] 82.160.29.71 (talk) 10:51, 1 October 2011 (UTC)