Scott Andrew - lo-fi acoustic pop superhero!

I’ve invalidated my RSS feed by including relative URL references inside some of the IMG tags. Question: if I am required to include a LINK element in my RSS feed, is there a reason RSS aggregators can’t use it to resolve relative links? The $REMOTE_HOST or equivalent? Given that people have been using relative URLs in pages for years, I’d expect RSS tools to be a bit more flexible in this regard. I mean, browsers can handle relative URIs, right?

Add this to my growing list of frustrations with alternate formats like RSS. I chose to design in XHTML and CSS because I wanted my site to be accessible to many devices. I don’t understand the need to generate a separate page in a separate format, with different rules and restrictions, to provide content to a particular type of device, which is a school of thought we should be moving away from.

One day soon this site will be pure XML, with your format of choice generated from an XSLT template set. Until I get around to that, pay no mind as I sit here and grumble.