Re: locating syndication feeds

[Aaron Swartz <aswartz@swartzfam.com>]

On Monday, July 16, 2001, at 11:46  PM, Mark Nottingham wrote:

> > Umm, you can put a rel attribute on an <a> tag also.
> >
> > <a href="channels.xml" rel="syndication"
> > type="text/xml">syndication!</a>
>
> How does that help? Do any browsers allow you to dispatch based on
> 'rel'?

Oh, you're still hung up on dispatching?

I think that's the wrong way to go -- it requires MIME types and 
installed software, etc., etc.

The future is in bookmarklets. They work for client-side 
software as well as server-side. You just write a little 
bookmarklet that redirects you (or opens a new window) to a "Add 
this feed" page passed with the URL of the page the user was 
previously looking at. The "add this feed" page can easily scan 
the site for a rel attribute.

So...

User visits <http://example.com> and thinks it's cool
They click on the "Add me to RadioDeskViewerKat" bookmarklet in 
their browser
It redirects them to 
<http://localhost:8049/addPage?url=http://example.com>
   (Or http://radiodeskviewerkat.com/addPage if it's a server-side app)
That page goes and grabs <http://example.com> and finds a rel 
attribute, and asks:

	Do you want to add "http://example.com/"; to RadioDeskViewerKat?
	[ Yes ] [ No ]

Voila!

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