[Websg Meetup] Query on RSS auto-discovery

Thu Mar 29 06:47:23 EDT 2007

Van,

Are we talking about simply adding

    <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"
href="http://your.feed.url" title="Your Feed Title" />

in between your <head></head> tag????

Or am I seriously missing something???????

On 3/29/07 6:29 PM, "Vanessa Tan" <vantan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> I need some technical advice. I'm getting a vendor to enable our website's CMS
> to generate and display RSS/Atom feeds.
> 
> One of my requirements is that the feed(s) should be embedded within the page
> as well, and not just hyperlinked as an icon. Which means that if you're using
> Firefox you will see the feed icon in the address bar. I wanted to let more
> advanced visitors to our site, to be able to subscribe using their browsers'
> autodiscover feature.
> 
> Very strangely, my vendor's programmers said that only IE7 supports such a
> feature.
> 
> I told them I am quite sure that other browsers like Firefox do, too (in fact
> Firefox & Opera were there earlier!).
> 
> They replied that they will embed the feeds but they will only support this
> feature in IE7 browsers.
> 
> I don't even have IE7 installed on my office laptop, because our IT support
> has prevented us from upgrading to IE7! And I'm thinking it's ridiculous that
> a vendor can only support us for IE7 when some of our visitors use alternative
> browsers. 
> 
> But ... if my hands are tied and I have to accept this condition, I need to
> know: If feeds are discoverable in IE7, they should be discoverable in other
> feed-enabled browsers too, right?
> 
> -Van.
> 
> 
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