[X4U] new safari and RSS feeds

John Baltutis baltwo at san.rr.com
Wed May 4 11:20:16 PDT 2005


On 05/04/05, Kansas Territory <kansast at mac.com> wrote:
> On May 4, 2005, at 8:07 AM, Muckerheide wrote:
>> Just save it in the bookmarks bar, standalone or in a folder.
>
> no..   what I meant. is that for example.
>
> Joe User goes to www.cnn.com    to the right of the address bar, 
> Safari displays an RSS  feed icon.  Letting Joe User know that 
> cnn.com has an RSS feed available for the page they are looking at.
>
> I've created RSS feeds for a few web pages that I'm responsible for.
> I want to set it up, so that when Joe User comes to my web page,  and 
> they are using Safari,  they would see that RSS FEED icon 
> automagically in their address bar...  and thus know, that there is
> an RSS feed available for that web page.

To find out how to do that, go to <http://developer.apple.com/> and enter
RSS in the search box.
Two which will help you get started are:
<http://developer.apple.com/ReleaseNotes/InternetWeb/SafariRSS.html>
(particularly the last blurb entitled "Why Doesn't Safari's Address Bar
Show the 'RSS' Button On My Website?") and
<http://developer.apple.com/internet/webcontent/rsssample_source.html>.


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