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Monday, November 24, 2003

XML.com: The Atom API [Oct. 15, 2003]

XML.com: The Atom API [Oct. 15, 2003]

The Atom API was designed because the MetaWeblog API proved that RPC-based APIs were simply the wrong solution for this problem. The Blogger API was about as complicated as you could reasonably get before things went completely off the rails. 'Shove everything into a struct' was an idea that sounded like it might solve some problems; but, as you can see, it caused more problems than it solved.