RSS auto-discovery and firefox 1.5

[Bruno Postle-2]

With firefox 1.0.x, MKDoc rss feeds were detected and an icon
appeared so they could be bookmarked.  With the latest firefox 1.5
release candidate this icon doesn't appear anymore.

The MKDoc fragment that no longer works:

  <link rel="syndication"
    href="http://www.mkdoc.com/.headlines.rss"
    title="RSS 1.0 Headlines"
    type="application/xml; charset=UTF-8"
    hreflang="en-gb" />
   
These two are ok:

  <link rel="alternate"
    title="Slashdot RSS"
    href="http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot"
    type="application/rss+xml">

  <link
  href="http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/front_page/rss.xml"
  rel="alternate"
  type="application/rss+xml"
  title="rss" />

This blog suggests that link rel="alternate syndication" should
work instead of just "syndication":

http://weblog.philringnalda.com/2005/04/15/what-feeds-should-firefox-discover

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[Chris Croome]

Hi

On Wed 16-Nov-2005 at 07:04:53PM +0000, Bruno Postle wrote:
>
> link rel="alternate syndication" should work instead of just
> "syndication"

OK, I have changed it to this, perhaps we should also consider serving
RDF as application/rdf+xml -- the RFC went through for this last year
[1]... is this MIME type supported by Firefox yet?

We have been using application/xml because the spec says:

  The current mime-type recommendation for an RSS 1.0 document is
  application/xml. However, work is currently being done to register a
  mime-type for RDF (and possibly RSS). The RDF (or preferably RSS)
  mime-type should be used once it has been registered.

  http://purl.org/rss/1.0/spec#s5_mimetype

Chris

[1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3870.txt

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[Bruno Postle-2]

On Thu 17-Nov-2005 at 11:42 +0000, Chris Croome wrote:
> On Wed 16-Nov-2005 at 07:04:53PM +0000, Bruno Postle wrote:
> >
> > link rel="alternate syndication" should work instead of just
> > "syndication"
>
> OK, I have changed it to this,

Confirmed, auto-discovery now works with firefox 1.5.

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