RSS autodiscovery via the HTML LINK element

Matt Griffith suggests using an HTML link element as a way to provide robots and news aggregators with means to find a site’s RSS feed. Mark Pilgrim chimes in with a few thoughts and an improvement. And then, I see the buzz coming from Jenny Levine too.

So, well, it’s easy enough. I just joined the bandwagon too.

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This entry was written by l.m.orchard, posted on May 31, 2002 at 5:23 am, filed under Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

3 Comments

  1. Avatar Phil Ringnalda
    Posted May 31, 2002 at 2:16 pm | Permalink

    Not quite easy enough, though: your feed doesn’t seem to be in /xml/newslog.xml like your link tag claims. Bad LM. No biscuit for you.

  2. Avatar l.m.orchard
    Posted May 31, 2002 at 2:51 pm | Permalink

    D’oht! I am biscuit-deprived. Good catch, should be fixed now. :)

  3. Avatar l.m.orchard
    Posted May 31, 2002 at 2:52 pm | Permalink

    Of course, the other thing I’m wondering… I did have the link on my story pages, but took it off since technically the RSS feed isn’t an alternate view for that page. I wonder if it matters so much, and if I should put it back there for convenience?