My First Feed: Does it Work?
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After considering for years I've finally tried adding a feed to my blog. Please try out the feed itself. If it generally seems to work then I'll hook up the autodiscovery stuff.
It passes the Feed Validator and I decided to jump through all the hoops of its compatibility advice. Even though a lot of that stuff seemed stupid, like adding <guid> elements which are an exact match for my <link> elements.
Since I write about a lot of subjects, I figure most people will want to skim most entries and not read it very often. So having full articles in the feed would hinder most users. What do you think?
For now, my build script takes the content of the 1st block-level element from each entry and uses that as the <description>.
Let me know if it works for you any ways I could improve it. It's working in Sage for Firefox 2 and Akgregator on the Linux KDE, after some teething problems.
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Hi Ben!
I don't use a reader, but it works perfectly in LiveFeed - FF3.
hth.
Cheers!
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| Ben Millard wrote: |
| Since I write about a lot of subjects, I figure most people will want to skim most entries and not read it very often. |
also, if you can (and want to), you could offer multiple feeds for different sorts of subjects? e.g. "personal" "web (general)" "accessibility" and so on, slo someone interested in only one of them could just follow the appropriate feed...
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Gary, glad to hear it! Success reports are as useful as bug reports.
At the moment my entries have no categorisation. Adding that to nearly 700 entries is pretty daunting!
It's something I've considered and those suggested categories make sense. Maybe I'll do that later in the year, when it's too rainy to do much outside.
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Due to the absence of bug reports I'm guessing it works fine for everyone. So I've now hooked up the autodiscovery. Now I get the cool RSS icon when I visit my blog. Yay! It's almost modern now!
Generating a feed has took about 2 days of fairly straightforward reading, coding and then a bit of bug-squishing. Maybe this XML stuff has its uses...
(EDIT) The IE Blog feed has completely locked up my Firefox for the past several entries. So I've had to unsubscribe from it. Anyone else had problems with it?
It always seemed really bloated. But it's only started locking up the browser during Summer 2009.
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