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Re: [syndication] Re: Fawcette's feed
That's how we found Apple's feeds -- they support auto-discovery. Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Kearney" <ml_yahoo@ideaspace.net>
To: <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 2:40 AM
Subject: [syndication] Re: Fawcette's feed
>
> One thing a site can do is put a <link> tag in the head section of
> the web pages. We do it on Syndic8.com for our feeds. We even do it
> on the per-feed info pages, using each feed's own RSS URL. Many
> sites do it on theirs as well (mine on ideaspace.net do it also)
>
> Here's the format:
>
> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS"
> href="http://example.com/rssfile.xml"; >
>
> Obviously, you should change the 'href' attribute value to the URL of
> your RSS feed. The type attribute is the same regardless of RSS
> version being used.
>
> Many bookmarklets, RSS readers, browser helpers and other tools
> understand how to look for this link tag metadata. This in addition
> to using the xml button (in all it's wonderful variations...)
>
> Since there are so many different ways an RSS feed can be generated
> it's unreasonable to expect anything to be able to use a fixed
> filename or path to find one. To poke around looking for these, let
> alone on a spidering or scheduled basis, is a waste of time AND
> bandwidth. The link tag gives them a quick and easy way to
> immediately find your RSS feed(s).
>
> Add the <link> tag to your page <head> section today!
>
> -Bill Kearney
>
> --- In syndication@yahoogroups.com, Julian Bond <julian_bond@v...>
> wrote:
> > Dave Winer <dave@u...> wrote:
> > >Another new feed just showed up -- from Fawcette.
> > >http://www.fawcette.com/rss.xml
> > >Updated twice a day.
> >
> > Once the evangelism has succeeded and these relatively mainstream
> sites
> > start to produce RSS, as well as thanking them, it would be good to
> > point out that there's no link to the RSS on their pages. And no
> link in
> > the page source either.
> >
> > It's quite frustrating to know that it's there somewhere but not be
> able
> > to guess the filename.
> >
> > Of course, this applies to an awful lot of amateur sites as well.
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