RSS

I’ve just set-up the RSS action on one of my my sites and it works great. Really impressed with how easy it is to set-up and maintain. And, it’s a great plus for this particular site.

Just a couple of questions though. I cannot create 2 news articles that link to the same page - the feed only shows 1. Also, I know on the SP site it says that IE6 cannot show the feeds - is that a limitation in IE rather than in the action itself?

Nathan Garner
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On 15 May 2008, at 11:48, Nathan Garner wrote:

I cannot create 2 news articles that link to the same page - the
feed only shows 1

This is a limitation in Safari by the looks of things, it auto removes
the duplicate item when it renders the feed. In Firefox for example it
correctly displays both items.

A workaround would be to put a ?123 at the end of the URL which will
fool Safari into thinking you have entered a different URL when in
fact it isn’t. If you have another item referencing the same page
again you will need to change 123 for something else (any
alphanumerics will do).

I know on the SP site it says that IE6 cannot show the feeds - is
that a limitation in IE rather than in the action itself?

It’s a bit of both. IE6 can’t display a link to a feed in the address
bar and it isn’t built to auto render RSS files like all good
browsers. It can display a feed if it has an associated stylesheet
(XSL, not CSS) though This is a possibility for the future but isn’t
currently built in.

Best,

Joe


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?123 works a dream Joe. Thanks.

Nathan Garner
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On 15 May 2008, at 12:16, Joe Billings wrote:

On 15 May 2008, at 11:48, Nathan Garner wrote:

I cannot create 2 news articles that link to the same page - the

feed only shows 1

This is a limitation in Safari by the looks of things, it auto removes
the duplicate item when it renders the feed. In Firefox for example it
correctly displays both items.

A workaround would be to put a ?123 at the end of the URL which will
fool Safari into thinking you have entered a different URL when in
fact it isn’t. If you have another item referencing the same page
again you will need to change 123 for something else (any
alphanumerics will do).

I know on the SP site it says that IE6 cannot show the feeds - is

that a limitation in IE rather than in the action itself?

It’s a bit of both. IE6 can’t display a link to a feed in the address
bar and it isn’t built to auto render RSS files like all good
browsers. It can display a feed if it has an associated stylesheet
(XSL, not CSS) though This is a possibility for the future but isn’t
currently built in.

Best,

Joe


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