seajays@h... wrote:
> With all the slightly different flavours of feeds, (RSS 1.0, 2.0, 0.91,
> Atom etc), what should we create 'new' feeds in, if we're coding them
> from scratch?

Damn good question.

RSS 1.0 is still the most powerful and I use it for internal workflows,
where I'm feeding a lot more than "neswfeed" content through the RSS
pipeline.  It's also easy to transcode 1.0 into Atom or 2.0

Atom is a well-thought out spec and pretty capable. It does everything
you could want for a public newsfeed. It's what I use for "newsfeeds".

RSS 2.0 has no function other than as backwards compatibility to feed
business-essential but borken newsreaders that don't understand Atom.
If you need it, then sometimes you just need it. It's still ugly
though,

0.9* are dead and buried, as is Atom 0.3 and RSS 1.1

> Will one or another 'win' the battle to become the de facto standard

No.

> will we be stuck with several different feed types all trying to do the
> same thing for a long time to come?

Yes   8-(