[Websg Meetup] Query on RSS auto-discovery

Thu Mar 29 12:34:34 EDT 2007

I think most of the current browsers have been updated with the feed
auto-discovery feature. Firefox, safari should have no problem at all
for this. Seems like your vendor is trying pull a fast one on you :)

regards,
Ronnie

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> " 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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