Re: LINK support in Mozilla 0.95

["Bill Kearney" <wkearney99@hotmail.com>]

> It depends on where you put the LINK - if it's on the summary page
> (e.g., www.cnn.com), it's perfectly appropriate. If it's on one of
> the articles themselves (e.g., www.cnn.com/today/someNewsItem),
> definately not.

I'm with folks on the idea of getting something embedded into a page 
that directly assists a feed client being used.  However, in the mean 
time, how about a link of some kind that points to an HTML page about 
the various feeds that might be available?  Might that be a good 
first step?  

I'm thinking of what it's going to take to get the various people 
providing the material to get on board.  Getting them to embed 
something that supports a currently non-existant reader seems a bit 
unreasonable.  Getting them to put in a <link> and an <A> tag for a 
whole other page about syndication might be easier.

Then we can work on them altering THAT page to interface to the 
readers.  And if that succeeds then reworking direct client support 
into pertinent pages will be a lot simpler.

In reading the <link> tag documentation, there's lots of good reasons 
for a provider to consider using them.  But it's going unused since 
there's very little support in the browsers commonly found in the 
field.  A classic chicken and the egg situation.

-Bill Kearney