Comments on: J.D. on RSS

By: Scot Hacker

Scot Hacker — Sat, 25 Jan 2003 08:26:03 +0000

Of course you guys may be right. But if MS does stick RSS into IE things could turn around very quickly. Remember their old Channels/Subscriptions technology? The idea was basically good, but the world wasn’t on board with XML yet, esp. not with MS’ proprietary twist.

Anyway, I’ll set a reminder for myself six months hence and do a follow-up post.

By: baald

baald — Fri, 24 Jan 2003 23:36:53 +0000

i have to agree with above comment. you’re cutting (bleeding) edge, scot. i still have never even tried ANY rss client, and while i’m not as engaged in tech as you are (in that you write about it and work for an organization that makes you relate to it in a differnet way than i — let alone joe scmoe – do), i’m still somewhat of a geek.

i just hit a few pages each day. then again, my problem isn’t lacke of information (well, maybe it is….). i need to MAKE space in my memory banks, not fill it up. med school, member? :)

in any event, two years sounds about right for ubiquity, maybe a bit longer for necessity.

as far as IE goes, i think it will wait until ther’s a $$$ reason for M$ to spend resources on including it. well, i mean first they’ll have to come up with their own incompatible version of it…..

By: NSLog();

NSLog(); — Fri, 24 Jan 2003 19:58:14 +0000

Nearly Two Years

I just realized that it’s been nearly two years since we’ve gotten a new version of Internet Explorer. Two freakin’ years! Actually, it’s been longer if you count the version that shipped with public beta. Sure, we’ve had some security updates here and…

By: Erik J. Barzeski

Erik J. Barzeski — Fri, 24 Jan 2003 19:52:14 +0000

Nothing happens in six months :-P But, I’m including IE in that “major browsers” list. Anyway, could happen. Bold prediction. You’ll see how bold in five months when nothing’s really changed :-)