Cook Computing

Following my previous post about Vista RSS platform support for ttl, skipHours, and skipDays, Josh Christie emailed me that the platform will also support RFC 3229 - Delta Encoding in HTTP (see here on the IEBlog). The RFC specifies a standard which allows clients to request deltas of a document, for example as generated by UNIX diff. As Josh suggests support in Vista may be the catalyst for widespread adoption of the standard. Bob Wyman has a piece on how RFC 3229 could be extended for better support of feeds.