Rodent Regatta

”Does your RSS feed validate?” is the question Mark Pilgrim is asking. How can I know? I haven’t even found the referrer logs for a Movable Type weblog, yet.

How on earth can the ”non-programmer” address this stuff? They cannot.

Unless the tools are built with the appropriate compliances, the user of the tool is going to miss something. Sure, the guy with the hammer can still build a wall that isn’t plumb. The guy with the wrench can still forget to tighten a lugnut. Should a writer using Movable Type be producing a non-validating RSS feed? Let’s remember that most writers didn’t start out to build an RSS feed at all. They simply wanted to write something.

We’re talking about writing weblogs here. That’s all I’m thinking about – writing. How on earth can I know what is going on behind the scenes of this tool?

I’d like to comply, but I’d really rather write!

UPDATE: Thanks to Jason Levine, I found this. I haven’t done it yet, but I found it!