Re: [syndication] Re: LINK support in Mozilla 0.95

[Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 09:01:11PM -0000, Bill Kearney wrote:

> 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.

Non-exitant reader? It would be trivial for any existant aggregator -
whether a program on the local machine or a Web site - to support
getting references that add a channel to the user's list of feeds.


> 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.

We've got a good opportunity with Mozilla. If there's activity around
what's happening there, IMHO there's a decent chance of IE picking it
up as well.


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Mark Nottingham
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