Comments on: Apple “photocasting” Mac only, uses invalid RSS

By: Carlos

Carlos — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 18:39:26 +0000

By: clintonG

clintonG — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 22:59:06 +0000

Apple has also published invalid examples of RSS 2.0 in the iTunes specification [1]. See “An Example Feed” and note there is no element in the channel. I’m discussing this and other “missing information” in their syndication-dev@lists.apple.com list.

I encourage others to show up in that list and support the concerns I have discussed as well as any you may have yourself.

[1] http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/techspecs.html

By: AlexW

AlexW — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 23:38:10 +0000

Zeldman's take on the issue -- iPhoto , iTunes, iForgotToTest

I think it more likely that Apple’s implementation is simply, grandly inept. It may be inept through knuckle-dragging unawareness of best practices in web design, as is the case with iWeb’s HTML markup. Or it may be inept because it was rushed to market.

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Fri, 20 Jan 2006 03:12:36 +0000

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By: Larry

Larry — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 01:30:24 +0000

Even with a compatible feed reader, the actual feed is not located at photocast.mac.com/… but at the URL that’s specified in the error message. Apple is looking at the User-Agent, and if it’s supported (eg, it contains “NetNewsWire/”) it returns a 302 redirect to the actual feed.

By: brainpipe » Apple defines Really Sucky Syndication standard

brainpipe » Apple defines Really Sucky Syndication standard — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 01:23:06 +0000

[...] Steve Jobs is a salesman. He’s possibly the best salesman on the planet, but that doesn’t make him a god, or even someone worth your attention. It means his purpose in life is to clean your wallet. And guess what? He’s done a respectable job thus far. Not exactly in Bill Gates territory (although Kevin Yank says Apple is the new Microsoft, but it beats the hell out of working for a living. It’s a lot like half the U.S. population bitching about the sinking ship they’re on: Bitch away, Mary, but you created this mess. [...]

By: anonymous

anonymous — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 09:40:30 +0000

“the new Microsoft” – Kevin, what ever you are smoking, either cut back on it or blog about it so the rest of us can join in.

By: Me

Me — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 05:48:22 +0000

Of course, maybe this is an intelligently written post which is designed just to get attention. And draw attention to the advertising.

Bashing Apple Sells newspapers

By: Kevin Yank

Kevin Yank — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 03:22:05 +0000

charmedlover:

For such a small error you’re making an alwful big deal about it. I haven’t seen any lashing for the HTML generated by FrontPage?

That’s because there’s still hope for Apple. :)

By: charmedlover

charmedlover — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 03:17:31 +0000

On the one hand, I’d say HTML validation errors are much less severe than RSS validations errors, as the former is not commonly processed as XML while the latter is.

My only point here is that you aren’t pefect either. I think the few errors in Apple’s generated feed are not drastic enough to lash out at them to this point. While I agree it should be brought to Apple’s attention you are taking it a level too far, elevating it to an unacceptable level.

I find you are simply looking for a small flaw in Apple’s system to criticize them just for the sake of criticizing them.

As mentioned earlier, Apple is good about fixing flaws such as this and getting them cleaned up. That is why Safari had the first official release of a browser that passed Acid2.

For such a small error you’re making an alwful big deal about it. I haven’t seen any lashing for the HTML generated by FrontPage?