Posted on Monday, July 11, 2005 1:44 AM
Using RSS on the desktop there are lot's of advantages for programmers..
The good thing is that on the desktop you (as a company or individual) only have to administer the RSS link (xml file) to sync with the people you are exchanging information or transactions with.
Because the link can always stay the same (if you don’t change domain name) your subscribers will never loose the connection with you information (XML).
So when a node (desktop, server or service) chooses to (manually) add your hyperlink to his list of RSS Subscriptions, you have a local pointer at the node and you control the contents of this XML file! (this at a refresh rate configured by the node).
This way you can simply change parameters at desktop anytime time, anywhere. The node only needs a (permanent) connection to internet (like ADSL, GPRS, UMTS, WIFI or another four letter standard).
It would be a good thing if we could set the refresh rate of a specific RSS feeds by the RSS publisher, and that the subscriber would have to expect or decline this refresh rate. This way you could have multiple transaction to agree on a RSS Refresh rate.
Now you have a agree refresh rate on a XML file that is stored locally on a desktop and you thereby have an real interesting interface. You can exchange (structured) information and (mutually agreed) file types. What else do we need?
Well different ways of formatting would be nice.. (XML stylesheet definitions, like DTDs, XML-Data, XDR, RDF, SOX, DCDs, XSchema and DDML)
I can think of more, but i like to free up everybody’s imagination…