Editing Web feed (section)

==Technical definition==
A web feed is a [[document]] (often [[XML]]-based) whose discrete content items include web links to the source of the content. News websites and blogs are common sources for web feeds, but feeds are also used to deliver structured information ranging from weather data to [[search engine|search]] results. 

Common web feed formats are:

* [[Atom (standard)|Atom]]
* [[JSON Feed]]
* [[RSS]]

Although RSS formats have evolved since March 1999,<ref name="Qstart">{{Cite web |url=http://my.netscape.com/publish/help/quickstart.html |title=My Netscape Network: Quick Start |publisher=[[Netscape|Netscape Communications]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001208063100/http://my.netscape.com/publish/help/quickstart.html |archive-date=December 8, 2000 |access-date=October 31, 2006}}</ref> the RSS icon ("[[File:Feed-icon.svg|16px]]") first gained widespread use between 2005 and 2006.<ref name="rssteam">{{Cite web |url=http://blogs.msdn.com/rssteam/archive/2005/12/14/503778.aspx |title=Icons: It's still orange |date=December 14, 2005 |publisher=Microsoft RSS Blog |author1=Jane |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081106074538/http://blogs.msdn.com/rssteam/archive/2005/12/14/503778.aspx |archive-date=November 6, 2008 |access-date=November 9, 2008}}</ref> The feed icon indicates that a web feed is available. 
The original icon was created by Stephen Horlander, a designer at [[Mozilla]]. <!-- No feed support in Mozilla since 2018 though: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/feed-reader-replacements-firefox -->
With the prevalence of [[JSON]] in [[Web API]]s, a further format, [[JSON Feed]], was defined in 2017.{{Citation needed|date=April 2025}}