Pros and Cons of Multi Format Delivery?

[Brett_Tabke]

I'm working up some tests of the following (for here) formats:

a) pda friendly format. There could be several options here including prerolled db's of the site for palm and pocketpc. (compressed and down to bare minimum html, wmw will fit in 16meg - whew)
b) expanded rss/xml options including (possibly) threads themselves with an official API.
c) expanded js options for sites to insert the homepage headlines, and activelist on to their site (moreover style, and iframe style).
d) reduced complexity for lynx and other graphic/table challenged browsers.

That's in addition to the current limited offerings:
standard html (you are viewing it), rss option of the homepage, iframes for the active list, and a couple of custom feeds for people.

The thing that concerns me the most, is management of all that. Anyone else doing multiformat delivery? What are some of the pro's and the con's you are running into?

[richlowe]

I'm doing RSS on my site. I update the file manually every day to add a new headline or two. It only takes a few minutes and makes my site available to people who use newsreaders and sites that want to display headlines.

See it at:
[internet-tips.net...]

[txbakers]

I started to offer my app (see profile) for a PDA format, but I did it with a bare bones HTML coding and I couldn't do any javascript client validation.

It was fun trying to stay within those confines.

But I did create a separate environment, with a different URL. If you want, you can access that by putting a "/w" after my profile URL. If you want a log-in, sticky me.