Http://goatee.net/2003/rss-history.html Web RSS (Syndication) History a "Syndication" Standard Has Been DEALT TWO BLOWS: The "Push" Bubble and Rss fork. See The evolution of rs for more Introduction of rs the different versions and History of the RSS Fork for a political history, and RSS Links for the evolution of some of the specific technical features Dec 96:. While at Apple, Ramanathan Guha proposes a (pre-XML) Project Sauce / X MCF format , "which stands for Meta Content Framework, is an open format for representing information about content." Dave Winer, of UserLand, is a (skeptical) early adopter Feb 97:. Business Week starts the "push hype" by declaring an age of "Webcasting" in a cover story, the bubble grows for the likes of Marimba, PointCast and DataChannel Mar 97:. Microsoft submits the Channel Definition Format (CDF) to the W3C Jun 97: Netscape submits the Meta Content Framework Using XML (MCF) To the W3C OCT 97: W3C Publishes The First Public W3C RDF Working Draft, Inspired by MCF AND PICS. DEC 97: DAVE WINER OF Userland Proposes
format, which is very similar to CDF Mar 99:.. My.Netscape.Com is launched based on RSS 0.9 (RDF Site Summary) which uses RDF syntax and XML Namespaces Interestingly, marketing folks at Netcenter caused this to be a stripped down version . from the author's original, "semantically richer", RDF version Dan Libby, the author, captured the original conception in a Futures Document which is very much like today's RSS 1.0 Jun 99:. Dave Winer introduces scriptingNews 2.0b1, and raises some concerns with RSS, such that it only has headlines and no content / text, and he repeats an interest in collaboration with Netscape Jul 99:. Despite the fact that the "push" bubble bursts, syndication remains a compelling application even if based on "poll then pull. "Jul 99: Netscape loses interest in the format, but given requests from UserLand and others, Netscape publishes RSS 0.91, renamed as" Rich Site Summary ", devoid of namespaces, based on a DTD, and contains elements from UserLand's
