Re: RSS Feeds

Sorry, I should also have put the following on my original email...

If you want to see an example of an RSS feed which behaves well in 
an RSS agregator (well the agregator I use anyway...), take a look 
at the one for GAIM:

http://gaim.sourceforge.net/rss.php/news

Also, I found it hard to find out what the URL of the Blitzed RSS 
feed was (I ended up asking someone in channel). Perhaps you'd 
consider having an 'RSS' button/link or something?

Thanks,
Matt


On Tuesday 04 May 2004 21:58, Matt Marsh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Please let me know if this isn't the right list for this...
>
> I have a couple of 'enhancements' that I would like to suggest
> for the Blitzed news RSS feed.
>
> I've started using RSS agregators a bit recently and it's great
> that Blitzed provide an RSS feed in the first place, but it could
> do with a couple of changes to make it really usable if possible:
>
> 1. Please include text of news item within <description> tags
>
>    The Blitzed RSS feed currently does not include the actual
> text of the news item. Instead the only thing I see in my
> agregator is the title of the item, and a link to get the full
> news item. Clearly it would be much nicer if you could provide
> the actual text of the news item between <description>
> </description> tags.
>
> 2. Please include a <pubDate> section for each news item
>
>    This will allow my agregator to display the correct publishing
>    date of each news item (instead of just giving the item the
>    date/time that I collected it).
>
> I don't suppose that there are many RSS users out there yet, but
> for those few of us that are out there, your consideration of
> these enhancements would be appreciated :-)
>
> Thanks,
> Matt (Eyecon)

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