It would appear that I am one of the last folk on the Web to have done
anything with RSS, and I figured it was about time that I thought about it!
Anyway, I've been setting up a news feed for one of my sites, and I've
found out how to make the little orange button appear in Firefox that
signifies an RSS feed is present on the page, but what controls the
title of the feed when bookmarked?
At present the feed takes on the name of the page that it is linked
from, but the feed is linked from many different pages. Is it possible
to get it to be called "Crappy RSS feed," for example, no matter which
page it is linked from?
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Dylan Parry
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Dylan Parry wrote:
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| It would appear that I am one of the last folk on the Web to have done anything with RSS, and I figured it was about time that I thought about it! Anyway, I've been setting up a news feed for one of my sites, and I've found out how to make the little orange button appear in Firefox that signifies an RSS feed is present on the page, but what controls the title of the feed when bookmarked? |
The <title> element in the xml file.
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| At present the feed takes on the name of the page that it is linked from, but the feed is linked from many different pages. Is it possible to get it to be called "Crappy RSS feed," for example, no matter which page it is linked from? |
Sure, feel free to examine my locusmeus.com feed:
http://locusmeus.com/rss.xml
or blog feed:
http://blog.locusmeus.com/xml-rss2.php
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Sonhos vem. Sonhos vo. O resto imperfeito.
- Renato Russo -
Now playing: Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
Els wrote:
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The same problem is present in the above, Els. If I go to bookmark your
feed from the main page then I get the title "It's a blog!" as the
bookmark title, but if I do it from your "hello" article I get "Hello
It's a blog!" as the title instead!
I would have though that Firefox would have paid attention to the title
element in the XML or at least to the title attribute in the <link/>
element :
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Dylan Parry
http://electricfreedom.org -- Where the Music Progressively Rocks!
NP: Novalis - Impressionen (Aural Moon: Progressive Rock Garden)
Dylan Parry wrote:
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| Els wrote: http://blog.locusmeus.com/xml-rss2.php The same problem is present in the above, Els. If I go to bookmark your feed from the main page then I get the title "It's a blog!" as the bookmark title, but if I do it from your "hello" article I get "Hello It's a blog!" as the title instead! |
Oops - I didn't even know that! I took your question as general,
missed the point about Firefox in particular.
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| I would have though that Firefox would have paid attention to the title element in the XML or at least to the title attribute in the <link/ element : |
Yup, as it's one and the same feed.
I guess it's 'just' a Firefox issue then - Opera bookmarks the feed
with the title I gave it. Worth a bug report maybe?
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Els http://locusmeus.com/
Sonhos vem. Sonhos vo. O resto imperfeito.
- Renato Russo -
Now playing: Guns N' Roses - You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory
Els wrote:
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| I guess it's 'just' a Firefox issue then - Opera bookmarks the feed with the title I gave it. Worth a bug report maybe? |
I guess it must be! I hadn't tested it in Opera (I still need to install
it after formatting this machine last week) so I thought it was
something *I* was doing wrong. I'll see if it's been reported already,
but if not I'll probably report it myself.
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Dylan Parry
http://webpageworkshop.co.uk -- FREE Web tutorials and references
Dylan Parry wrote:
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| I'll see if it's been reported already, but if not I'll probably report it myself. |
I took a look after posting the above, and it does seem to have been
reported already, although /they/ don't seem to have confirmed or
acknowledged the problem :(
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Dylan Parry
http://webpageworkshop.co.uk -- FREE Web tutorials and references
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| At present the feed takes on the name of the page that it is linked from, but the feed is linked from many different pages. Is it possible to get it to be called "Crappy RSS feed," for example, no matter which page it is linked from? |
Simply define the channel title tag to contain the title you want. You can use
software like that by FeedForAll http://www.feedforall.com and use the wizard
makes making feeds really easy.
Best,
Julia
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