Re: [syndication] Re: Finding Feeds

[burton@relativity.yi.org]

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Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> writes:

> On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 09:56:09PM -0000, Bill Kearney wrote:
> > > But this is not the point.  The point is that this would work in
> > > a a distributed environment.  It would be nice to find feeds base
> > > on the site similar to robots.txt.
> > 
> > Now this is an interesting idea.  Are you saying that when viewing a 
> > web page that's also available 'somewhere' in syndicated format that 
> > you want your browser to pick up on that and tell you?  Now, THAT 
> > would be slick.  It would really 'complete the circuit' from fed 
> > items to their website and back again.
> 
> That's what I'd like to see; see the "Linking to channel lists" proposal in
> [1. I think the on-page link is an intermediate step, until browsers support
> indicating a feed is there in the UI natively (know any mozilla coders?).

yeah... right here!  know anyone hiring :)

Right now we are building out Reptile (sorry for the shameless self promotion)
so that it provides most of the backend via a Java daemon/peer.  Mozilla will be
used with new chrome with syndication and reputation functionality for the UI.

I have already hacked around with this a little and have ome really hacky
Mozilla code that can put this together.

> I *think* we could probably just drop the 'channel list' file and discover
> feeds based upon content-type, and dispatch them appropriately.

> <LINK REL="rss-feed" TYPE="text/rss+xml"
>  HREF="http://www.example.com/feed.rss";?

This has been proposed.  I don't think this should require any modification of
HTML.  I think we could do it MUCH nicer with a hierarchical XCS structure.

> or a user follows a link that ends up at the same place, the browser
> dispatches (based on content-type) the link to a piece of software, which is
> either

in my case it would be Reptile. :)

> a) a local aggregator 
> 
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