Pretty Feeds
August 13, 2006 Posted by Al Castle
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Categories: PRWeb, Puter Stuff, Web Design & Dev
It’s still a work in progress, but last week I quietly made some alterations to a few hundred thousand PRWeb RSS 2.0 feeds. I added in an XML StyleSheet (XSL). Which basically renders the feed with some HTML if users try to view the feed via a web browser which supports XSL ( IE and Firefox ), Safari for OSX seems to refuse and renders feeds in their own way regardless of the wishes of the feed creator.
This modification provides a message for customers that do not understand what they’ve clicked on, or what an RSS feed is. Users can also add that feed easily to their Google, Yahoo, or MSN news readers via standard looking chicklets. It needs some cleanup, and a few things need to be expanded, but it should provides some assistance to the new user or PRWeb and RSS in general.
News readers/aggregators should process the feed as normal ignoring the stylesheet.
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