{{RSS}} is far from dead – it’s ubiquitous.<\/p>\n
What astonishes me, though, is that not all applications that have a WebUI don’t publish feeds via RSS (or {{Atom}} – same difference).<\/p>\n
OpenNMS<\/a> and Nagios<\/a> (via a plugin) will push alerts via RSS – which is fantastic: there’s no reason everyone shouldn’t be able to filter what alerts they look at. I’m sure some other tools will do this, too.<\/p>\n But why don’t all WebUI-based applications support updates and content via RSS? Several of the applications I routinely work with have no possibility of getting data out with an industry-standard format – they use custom {{API}}s (APIs are excellent – and RESTful<\/a> ones are better, but they’re no RSS).<\/p>\n What benefits could come from every webapp being RSS-enabled? I can think of a few right-off:<\/p>\n Is you’re developing a webapp, or you’re giving an app a WebUI – make sure you give the ability to get information out via RSS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" {{RSS}} is far from dead – it’s ubiquitous. What astonishes me, though, is that not all applications that have a WebUI don’t publish feeds via RSS (or {{Atom}} – same difference). OpenNMS and Nagios (via a plugin) will push alerts via RSS – which is fantastic: there’s no reason everyone shouldn’t be able to filter …\n
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