Re: Re: RSS code not working in IE but showing up in Firefox....need help!

> That's part of the problem. The other problem is that the stylesheet doesn't 
> exist. Obviously IE6 doesn't have any built-in support for RSS, so if you 
> want the feed to display as something pretty you're going to have a valid 
> stylesheet and use a content-type of text/rss or application/rss.

James, should the content-type be either "application/xml" or "text/xml"?

Franklin

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Holderness" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Date: Friday, 06 July, 2007 22:17
Subject: Re: [rss-public] Re: RSS code not working in IE but showing up in Firefox....need help!

> Randy Morin wrote:
>> Sorry, I don't currently have an IE6 installation to test that with.
>> I ran it thru a validator.
>> http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bmc.com%
>> 2Ftv%2Frss2.xml
>> It says the RSS is being served as text/plain. That may be the
>> problem.
> 
> That's part of the problem. The other problem is that the stylesheet doesn't 
> exist. Obviously IE6 doesn't have any built-in support for RSS, so if you 
> want the feed to display as something pretty you're going to have a valid 
> stylesheet and use a content-type of text/rss or application/rss.
> 
> Otherwise you can use a content-type of application/rss+xml and let the 
> user's default RSS reader handle the file. However, for that to work you'd 
> also need an atom:link in the feed. You can read up on how to do that here: 
> http://www.kbcafe.com/rss/usm.html
> 
> Regards
> James
> 
> 


 
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