I finally figured out why this is a good idea. This was the key for me.

"The whole hoo-ha with the HTML element is making RSS feeds easier for your aggregator software to discover without your manual intervention. “This is a cool site,” you say, and rather than searching the page for a link to an RSS feed so you can copy the feed’s URL into your news aggregator, you just give the aggregator the URL you’re reading, and it can look for an appropriate element all by itself. Mark’s bookmarklets accomplish this for several existing news aggregators."

If you are still confused as to why this is cool, don't worry. It took me about an hour to figure it out and I know a bunch about XML, RSS feeds, news aggregators, and bookmarklets.

Posted by: John S. Rhodes on June 2, 2002 01:47 PM

 

Congratulations on being an early adopter; the standard has changed already. ;-)

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/06/02.html#important_change_to_the_link_tag

Cheers.

-Mark

Posted by: Mark Pilgrim on June 2, 2002 08:29 PM

 

I change has been made...

Posted by: John S. Rhodes on June 2, 2002 09:00 PM

 

Glad to see webword is joining in the effort. The more websites support this, the better integrated we all will be.

Posted by: Eric on June 3, 2002 08:36 AM