[consulting] Absolute Paths in Content for Better Rss Compatibiliy

[Sam Cohen]

Shai,

Thanks for the heads up on that.  I always assumed RSS readers automatically
converted relative paths to absolute ones.

This issue comes up a lot for me with sites that export content to an email
program, so it's similar.  To make sure that no relative paths go out via
email --in images or links -- I run the content through a simple str_replace
in the template.php file, basically looking for href="/ and src=/ and
replacing it with the full path.

Sam



On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Shai Gluskin <shai at content2zero.com>wrote:

> I've been using RSS a lot more lately, encouraging my clients to, and
> making my sites more RSS friendly.
>
> I've only recently realized that inline relative URLs break in a lot,
> if not most, feed readers. Do you encourage content editors to use
> absolute urls because of this? Do you use absolute urls in your own
> blogs?
>
> Shai
> p.s. I've been using magecache combined with CCK's functionallity for
> setting a separate display choice for RSS to size images smaller for
> RSS feeds, presuming a lot of the RSS audience is on a mobile device.
> Way awesome.
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