I know My Yahoo sucks in Atom just fine, you have to. All the feeds you’re producing are RSS 2 though, which is the interesting part. If you ask Google people why they just support Atom and not RSS 2 (in my mind if you support one you might as well support the other) they say they’re doing stuff internally RSS 2 can’t support. I can’t imagine what, but that’s what they say. Apparently for Yahoo, RSS 2 is just fine.
If My Yahoo! *didn’t* also handle Atom just fine, I could see why someone might think there’s a battle here. But there isn’t one.
File formats, despite what Microsoft might have tried to prove, are not the way to win.
I know My Yahoo sucks in Atom just fine, you have to. All the feeds you’re producing are RSS 2 though, which is the interesting part. If you ask Google people why they just support Atom and not RSS 2 (in my mind if you support one you might as well support the other) they say they’re doing stuff internally RSS 2 can’t support. I can’t imagine what, but that’s what they say. Apparently for Yahoo, RSS 2 is just fine.