well, it’s way passed due, but all of
the vast wasteland
now supports
rss
autodiscovery
. if that doesn’t mean anything to you then fughetaboutit,
otherwise read on for the gory details.
i was rereminded that i wanted to support autodiscovery after
reading mark pilgrim’s excellent
ultra liberal rss locator
:
“One of my biggest pet peeves about the current
generation of news aggregators is that they don’t work very hard at
finding RSS feeds. The other side of this coin is their stubborn
insistence on making RSS visible. RSS should be completely
invisible.”
oh, how i long for the day when we can be rid of
all those silly orange xml icons cluttering up valuable real estate
and confusing my grandma.
then, with impeccable timing, brent simmons throws in
support for rss invisibility
in the latest beta of
netnewswire
, so i download it and gave it a shot for the various pages on my
site and found out that it’s not quiet as liberal in its design as
mark’s
ultra liberal rss locator
. hi. ho. so i decided to do the right thing finally and support
not-so-liberal rss location.