Given that RSS eschewed XML & specifically XML namespaces for so long, the idea that RSS ever would have called itself RDF is hilarious to me.
Part of the whole reason Atom (RFC4287) was began was because embedding content inside RSS was a shit show, a disaster, because while it sort of looked like XML and said xml at the top (maybe), the lack of namespaces meant it wasn't safely extensible & putting rich content inside was a huge mixed bag. RDF on the other hand has always been about flexibility & namespaces, about rich data.
Killedbygoogle.com is a good reference, for sure, but this is kind of higher level anti-internet anti-protocols anti-standardization sabotage. This isn't just abandoned product, this is degrading & reducing what used to be a protocol-centric world of newsgroups to a captive, isolated product.
Oh! The plot thickens! TIL RSS 2.0.1 actually got explicit namespace support! Wikipedia:
> RSS 2.0.1 has the internal version number 2.0. RSS 2.0.1 was proclaimed to be "frozen", but still updated shortly after release without changing the version number. RSS now stood for Really Simple Syndication. The major change in this version is an explicit extension mechanism using XML namespaces
RDF was used early on by a lot of sites before moving to one of the later RSS specs. The Simple in RSS was a reaction to the perceived (and actual) complexity of RDF.
Part of the whole reason Atom (RFC4287) was began was because embedding content inside RSS was a shit show, a disaster, because while it sort of looked like XML and said xml at the top (maybe), the lack of namespaces meant it wasn't safely extensible & putting rich content inside was a huge mixed bag. RDF on the other hand has always been about flexibility & namespaces, about rich data.
Killedbygoogle.com is a good reference, for sure, but this is kind of higher level anti-internet anti-protocols anti-standardization sabotage. This isn't just abandoned product, this is degrading & reducing what used to be a protocol-centric world of newsgroups to a captive, isolated product.
Oh! The plot thickens! TIL RSS 2.0.1 actually got explicit namespace support! Wikipedia:
> RSS 2.0.1 has the internal version number 2.0. RSS 2.0.1 was proclaimed to be "frozen", but still updated shortly after release without changing the version number. RSS now stood for Really Simple Syndication. The major change in this version is an explicit extension mechanism using XML namespaces