[drupal-devel] RSS indicater?

Tim Altman web at timaltman.com
Tue Jun 7 22:19:40 UTC 2005


On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 18:27:09 +0200, Gabor Hojtsy <gabor at hojtsy.hu> wrote:

>> Apparently in the Tiger release of Mac OS, Safari somehow automatically
>> indicates if a web site has an RSS feed.  I don't have access to this
>> version of Safari (stuck on Win2k :-( ) so this information is second  
>> hand.
>>
>> Anyway, the point is, my Drupal-based sites which do provide RSS feeds
>> do not trigger this indicator.
>>
>> If there is some sort of widespread or semi-standard way for RSS
>> auto-discovery, is that something we should add support for in Drupal?
>>
>> It seems like it would be useful.  Some of my users did not know my site
>> had RSS because their browser was not telling them it did.  When I told
>> them directly, they were pleased to take advantage of it.
>
> Drupal already works fine with Safari RSS, all the stuff was in there
> way before Safari RSS was released.
>
>  http://developer.apple.com/internet/safari/faq.html#anchor22

	Is the LINK header stuff already in core?  I knew it wasn't in 4.5, so I  
added to my theme.  That's what Opera uses for its RSS indicator and  
probably the same thing used by Firefox.

-- 
Tim Altman



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