On: The Case for RSS

[lj3]

Hell, just finding the RSS feed on some sites is like going on a scavenger hunt. I really wish the html spec itself had a standardized way of defining the rss file for a site, like they do for favicon.

[explainplease → lj3]

It does. In the HEAD, LINK tags with REL="alternate" and TYPE="application/rss+xml" (or "atom" instead of "rss").

[webspinner → lj3]

I use the RSS feed finder user script. If it really can't find it, I use the feed autodetect bookmarklet. Both work well for me.

[bob9 → lj3]

Don't sites put it in the HTML meta headers anymore? This is then picked up by the browser and displayed under the feed icon/menu.