[Websg Meetup] Query on RSS auto-discovery

Thu Mar 29 07:09:08 EDT 2007

The only thing you have to take note of is IE7¹s Œauto-discovery¹ will
display a feed error if any part of your feed content has invalid characters
 very easy to encounter this problem if your staff copy-and-paste from MS
Word into your web CMS. IE7 is very (overly) strict on this (for once).

Else no problems with FF, Safari etc. etc. if not I wouldn¹t be subscribed
to vantan.org :)

What kind of vendor you have??? :P

On 3/29/07 6:48 PM, "Vanessa Tan" <vantan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks. I would like to think that's all that's needed... there's no such
> thing as proprietary IE-only code for embedding feeds, right?
> 
> On 29/03/07, MCube (Philip) <seraphim at mcube.tv> wrote:
>> Van,
>> 
>> Are we talking about simply adding
>> 
>>     <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="
>> http://your.feed.url <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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-- 
Thank You & Best Regards!

Philip Lee
MCUBE NEW MEDIA (#53059545A)
Tel: +65.9850.7825
Fax: +65.6729.8930
Email: seraphim at mcube.tv
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