[Websg Meetup] Query on RSS auto-discovery

Thu Mar 29 07:58:23 EDT 2007

*cough* I see! *cough*  :P

On 29/03/07, choonkeat <choonkeat at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Btw, just to pre-empt "browser market share" conversations, auto-discovery
> tags are not limited to only serve browsers. They enable any application *cough*
> rssfwd.com<http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/preview?url=http%253A//vantan.org/>*cough*to retrieve the feeds from regular website pages.
>
>
> On 3/29/07, MCube (Philip) <seraphim at mcube.tv> wrote:
> >
> >  The only thing you have to take note of is IE7's 'auto-discovery' 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 wouldn't 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> <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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> >
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