Feed Discovery

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IE7 Beta 2 Pages

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Internet Explorer Beta 2 Preview provides feeds discovery functionality. The "Feed" button on the Command Bar is enabled when there is a feed discovered for the current website. The website can enable this functionality by adding the link element to the website with a link to the associated feed. For the full details, please read the publishing guide: http://blogs.msdn.com/rssteam/articles/PublishersGuide.aspx

Please use this page to report any problems with pages that use the link element as described in the publishing guide, but for which the "Feed" button is not enabled. Give the website URL, and a code snippet of the link element from the website, like so:

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0. www.cricinfo.com

<link href="http://www.cricinfo.com/rss/livescores.xml" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS Feed of Live Match Scores" />
<link href="http://www.cricinfo.com/rss/index.rdf" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Global RSS Feed" />
<link href="http://www.cricinfo.com/rss/Australia.rdf" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Australia RSS Feed" />

status: seems to be OK now.

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1. www.diveintomark.org/tests/client/autodiscovery/html4-025.html

<link rel="foo alternate" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://diveintomark.org/tests/client/autodiscovery/html4-025.xml">

rel is a space-separated list of keywords, one of which must be alternate.

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2. www.pepysdiary.com

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rdf+xml" title="RSS feed" href="/syndication/full.rdf" />

application/rdfxml is unspec'd for autodiscovery, but then application/rssxml is unregistered; my compromise for Firefox was to only accept rdf+xml when the title includes " rss " (also totally unspec'd, but nobody's filed a bug on it, since last summer)

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3. www.w3future.com/weblog/

<a rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="The syndicated version of this weblog." href="http://w3future.com/weblog/rss.xml">RSS 0.91</a>

Please also consider supporting <a> elements. All the attributes are valid <a> attributes, and as most people already have a hyperlink to the feed in the page, it makes no sense to have to repeat this in the head.

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4. Starting Problems Encountered..

1. When a page is loading, one that does NOT have a proper < link> tag pointing to an rss feed, the rss icon still glows. Only after the entire page has stopped loading does the icon become disabled. During the time that the icon is falsely glowing, clicking the icon has no effect.

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5. Problem with www.sophos1.net feed discovery.

Code:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Peter Holloway's Weblog" href="http://www.sophos1.net/rss.asp">

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6. Problem with www.stuffmag.co.uk feed discovery.

Code:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Stuff Magazine RSS" href="http://www.stuffmag.co.uk/rss/newsrss.xml">

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7. problem with www.ixbt.com/export.shtml feed discovery

Code:

<a href="http://www.ixbt.com/export/articles.rdf">ixbt.com/export/articles.rdf</a>

Does rdf also supported in IE 7?

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8. Problem with www.au.org/site/PageServer feed discovery

Code:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="AU Press Releases" href="http://feeds.au.org/AU" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="The Wall Of Separation Blog Entries" href="http://feeds.au.org/AUblog" />