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| 436151 | 2006-03-07 01:36:00 | I have been trying to use the PressF1 (and PCWorld) RSS feeds, but I keep getting errors saying that the site isn't formatted properly or something (will double-check the messages in a couple of minutes). I thought maybe it was just that IE was being picky, so I tried it in Firefox and I get a similar message. All the other RSS feeds I've tried (NZHerald, CNN, Sportal) work fine in both IE and Firefox - it's just the PressF1 and PCWorld feeds I can't get to work. Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 436152 | 2006-03-07 01:44:00 | This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below. Internet Explorer cannot display this feed An unknown error has occurred. Please try again later. Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 436153 | 2006-03-07 02:06:00 | Hi Mike - That Firefox message is normal .. what you should see is the Raw XML underneath (as a sort of tree structure .. try clicking on the "plus" signs to the left to see it open up). IE isn't good at displaying raw XML unless it knows what "stylesheet" to use to format the display .. so it fails with an error. RSS feeds are only really useful to RSS readers rather then human eyes (so not really meant to be read in the browser). The purpose is to syndicate the content out to something that can then make use of it - like an RSS reader, or a web-based aggregator or something. You could going to Start.com (Microsoft's free user-customisable web-portal - or www.netvibes.com for an alternative) and see if you can add the PC World feed to the page. I did it recently with both the Computerworld News feed and the Unlimited feed, and it worked fine. Or search on Google under "RSS reader" ... and you'll see loads of freely downloadable "feed-readers" you can use to subscribe to any RSS feeds you wish. I do know ('cause I wrote the code way back) that the Computerworld and Unlimited feeds are both RSS version 0.9x .. not 2.0. So if whatever you want to use the RSS feeds in requires version 2.0 RSS, then you'll need to nag the PressF1 admins for an upgrade. The PC World feed (for reference) is at: www.idg.co.nz Cheers Mark |
marke (457) | ||
| 436154 | 2006-03-07 02:18:00 | That Firefox message is normal .. what you should see is the Raw XML underneath (as a sort of tree structure .. try clicking on the "plus" signs to the left to see it open up).Ah woops ;) I thought Firefox could view RSS feeds... seems I need an extension to do that. IE isn't good at displaying raw XML unless it knows what "stylesheet" to use to format the display .. so it fails with an error. RSS feeds are only really useful to RSS readers rather then human eyes (so not really meant to be read in the browser).Sorry, seems I forgot to say - I'm using IE7, which has a built in newsfeed/RSS reader I do know ('cause I wrote the code way back) that the Computerworld and Unlimited feeds are both RSS version 0.9x .. not 2.0. So if whatever you want to use the RSS feeds in requires version 2.0 RSS, then you'll need to nag the PressF1 admins for an upgrade.I wonder if that is the problem with IE...? Cheers, Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 436155 | 2006-03-07 02:23:00 | Ah woops ;) I thought Firefox could view RSS feeds... seems I need an extension to do that.Ah yes, now I have a newsfeed reader in Firefox I can see the PCWorld and PressF1 feeds just fine... So the problem seems to lie with Internet Explorer :) Typical ;) Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 436156 | 2006-03-07 02:27:00 | Ah yes, now I have a newsfeed reader in Firefox I can see the PCWorld and PressF1 feeds just fine... So the problem seems to lie with Internet Explorer :) Typical ;) Mike. The most common formats are RSS and Atom. Web feed formats are constantly being updated with new versions. Internet Explorer supports RSS 0.91, 1.0, and 2.0. All web feed formats are based on XML (Extensible Markup Language), a text-based computer language used to describe and distribute structured data and documents.According to that IE7 should accept the PCWorld feed in RSS 0.91... I wonder why it's not working - as I said earlier, all the other feeds I've tried to view in IE have displayed fine; it's just the PCWorld ones :) Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 436157 | 2006-03-07 02:33:00 | The RSS feed for the forum works fine in Opera. Opera has a built in RSS reader too. Which has just been updated to 8.53. So, its not the feed. Thats the prob. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 436158 | 2006-03-07 02:39:00 | The RSS feed for the forum works fine in Opera. Opera has a built in RSS reader too. Which has just been updated to 8.53. So, its not the feed. Thats the prob.Cool thanks - time to give some feedback to the IE7 team I think :) Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 436159 | 2006-03-07 04:44:00 | IE7 is a beta release, isn't it? If they say that it accepts RSS 0.91, 1.0, and 2.0, all that means is that they hope it will by the time it is released as supported code. They probably tested it with 2.0. | Graham L (2) | ||
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