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If you publish an RSS

2024-02-02 23:25:02.180932+01 by Dan Lyke 1 comments

If you publish an RSS feed, *please* put it in a "link" element with type "application/rss+xml". Don't just link to it somewhere in the body of your text in an "a href=...", it's really hard to suss out that automatically.

If we're, say, building browser features where we offer "tell me when this page updates" to users... For instance.

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#Comment Re: If you publish an RSS made: 2024-02-03 01:37:51.638841+01 by: spc476 [edit history]

One Firefox extension I miss is the one where it takes <link rel="..."> links and generates a site navigation tool in the browser. My blog still generates those links on the off change that extension is ever made again ...