Feed autodetection in Firefox

RSS feed integration in Firefox will let you subscribe to a feed from within the browser. I hope they use a standard feed: protocol.


A lightning bolt icon appears on sites which have the <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss xml" title="RSS" href="http://www.example.com/index.xml" /> bit in the <head> tags. All you got to do is to click on the icon and choose from the syndication formats available.


July 16, 2004

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Except the feed:// protocol isn't standard, is it? It's arbitrary.

Posted by: Phil Wilson on July 16, 2004 10:48 AM

OK, I meant a standard feed:-like protocol, but thought that would just confuse things. Personally, though, I do think that feed: would be a good standard.

Posted by: alf on July 16, 2004 10:57 AM