If there's one thing I've learnt over the past few days it's that RSS and Atom feeds across the web are an absolute mess.
I've never spent too much time worrying about them beyond do they exist for any given site but working with them has shown just how ... varied ... things are, for want of a better term. And this is with only a small selection – I currently have only 85 feeds in /reader.
Some feeds completely ignore required elements, or play fast and loose with standards, meaning I've had to put in checks for alternatives.
