" By keeping it simple, and focusing on what?s important, we?ve built a pretty sweet little API. SimplePie?s focus has been two-fold: "

"SimplePie supports everything from the old-school RSS 0.91 and RSS 1.0 formats, to the ever-popular RSS 2.0 format, and also supports the emerging Atom format, in both 0.3 and 1.0 flavors."

" for a while, and having not had much experience with PHP at that point, I discovered that Magpie was kind of a pain to use. Sure, there?s a lot that it can do (it?s a great parser, by the way), but it wasn?t particularly beginner-friendly."

", but still allow greater functionality for the more advanced PHP coders. We think we?ve been pretty successful with that."

" By caching the processed data, rather than just the raw XML, we?ve been able to create a feed parser that?s really freakin? quick. There are also some enhancements on the list that will allow us to make caching even more efficient."

"We also do a series of code optimizations as we prep for each release to be sure that SimplePie runs as fast as possible. If a feature is cool and helpful but may add to the loading times, we make it a configurable option that is disabled by default."

"With SimplePie?s built-in subscription support, your readers can easily add feeds (including yours) to a variety of popular (and even not-so-popular) online feed readers and aggregators. "

" they can get your blog or news entries into the heart of the Blogosphere. And with Technorati, they can easily get an idea of how popular you really are."

". And if that podcast or videocast is in one of several popular formats, SimplePie can even embed the podcast in the page itself. No more having to download the podcast and load it into a player manually. "

" for websites that have feed auto-discovery enabled (which is most blogs and personal sites, and even many business sites)."

". Rogue feeds can potentially cause all sorts of mischief on your system, so we?ve implemented these suggestions into SimplePie."

"Of course, like people who order their steak medium and instead get a bloodbath on their plate, "

" Some websites block the loading of their images from other websites. That?s fine, and a good thing at that. Unfortunately, for projects like SimplePie where all the feed goodness is displayed on a webpage, this means that we usually end up missing out where desktop aggregators get it all. Stupid desktop aggregators?"

" Now you can view feed content the way the author always intended?with the images inline with the content. No more worrying about whether a website
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