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RSS History

History of RSS:

The original RSS, version 0.90, was designed by Netscape as a format for building portals of headlines to mainstream news sites. It was deemed overly complex for its goals; a simpler version, 0.91, was proposed and subsequently dropped when Netscape lost interest in the portal-making business. But 0.91 was picked up by another vendor, UserLand Software, which intended to use it as the basis of its weblogging products and other web-based writing software.

In the meantime, a third, non-commercial group split off and designed a new format and this format, which is based on RDF, is called RSS 1.0. But UserLand was not involved in designing this new format, and, as an advocate of simplifying 0.90, it was not happy when RSS 1.0 was announced. Instead of accepting RSS 1.0, UserLand continued to evolve the 0.9x branch, through versions 0.92, 0.93, 0.94, and finally 2.0.

RSS 0.91 (Rich Site Summary)

Netscape released version 0.91 in July, 1999 and has since been upgraded by Dave Winer of Userland to 0.92 and in August 2002 to 0.94 and 2.0. The latest version is the first to support extension ability with optional namespaces in its first module, blogChannel.

RSS 1.0 (RDF Site Summary)

RDF or Resource Description Framework provides an XML structure for describing document metadata content. The RSS-DEV Working Group created RSS version. 1.0 (official specification) in December 2000 supporting RDF thus allowing the description and syndication of site content and metadata.

Where RSS 1.0 conforms to the W3C RDF specification. RDF is a model for describing metadata for describing resources from a collection of web sites, a single web site, parts of web pages, a specific HTML or XML element, documents, printed books, recipes, etc.

Posted By Devendra Prakash Jaiswal
6:19 AM