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A plea for sense

20th November 2002

Peter Van Dijck: We need some sense in the naming of XML feed buttons.. I couldn’t agree more—in this day of syndication formats left, right and center the orange XML button could mean just about anything. Speaking of which, I’ve finally got around to adding a pretty blue RSS button to this site.

Posted 20th November 2002 at 4:31 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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