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Re:Firefox removes core product support for RSS/Atom feeds by ChuckMcM on Friday October 12, 2018 @05:32PM (#18204867)
This captures it. Metadata isn't a controlled spec so there is no leverage to say "you are doing it wrong". As a result when you only care about a couple of "big players" it is feasible to just follow along with their changes as they change but a dozen different players? That is impractical.
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Re:Firefox removes core product support for RSS/Atom feeds by greglindahl on Friday October 12, 2018 @05:48PM (#18204957)
Websites tend to use Facebook opengraph metadata correctly, because they can see the results on Facebook.

I think that's the kind of thing that burtonator was referring to.

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Re:Firefox removes core product support for RSS/Atom feeds by eli on Friday October 12, 2018 @05:59PM (#18205046)
Dunno if RSS is the example I’d hold up of a controlled spec success story. Worked fine if you only ever had links, titles and, sometimes, some body text.
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