RSS feeds and Google Chrome
I am not sure if anyone else uses, or has used, Google’s new Chrome browser. I downloaded it recently to try it out and have liked it for the most part. The problem I just encountered with it is when trying to subscribe to an RSS feed. Everytime I click on an RSS link it directs me to a page that has, I guess we’ll call it “naked”, RSS coding. So mostly a page that looks like gibberish. I ended up having to manually add all of the feeds to my reader by copying the URL which I thought was retarded. I was just seeing if anyone knew why this was happening or not. I guess I am gonna go back to using Firefox full-time.
Wayne said,
February 4, 2009 at 11:48 pm
Jonathan, sorry I meant to respond to this when I first read it but forgot to go back. It sounds like Chrome is automatically providing you with the XML page – html like links but have their own tags? This is actually the file that is created to be subscribed to. We will learn to create those XML pages in Intermediate Scripting. You are used to links that have been created by an online application that “does the feed transfer” for you. I personally try to get to the plain xml page, for all you have to do is copy its URL and paste it in your reader. Thats better than looking all over for the link to the feedburner style link which then provides a button to take you to your reader (if the author added the one you use!)
rmspencer said,
February 23, 2009 at 10:11 pm
I haven’t had a chance to use chrome but seems like it would be very useful, im going to go ahead and try it out to see whats going on with it. thanks for the info on it.