""this is a feed intended for rendering in an aggregator" and "Publishers' don't have control over the look of their feed in" other readers." WHAT??? Are you kidding me... If by other readers you are choosing to exclude those that do, then thats just lame.... Take for example, your own Dare Obasanjo's RSS Bandit (See attached screen shot) or, hitting even closer to home, Windows Live and Start.com, which both allow the ability to build gadgets than can render data feeds however you might see fit. There are TONS of examples of feed readers that provide AMPLE capability for user definable rendering of a web feed. I hope these two are enough, but if you, in fact, would like to see more, I would be happy to write provide just such a report for you. On 3/8/06, James Yenne <jamesy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > IE6 and FF render Atom/RSS feeds as html using the xml-stylesheet directive, > however, IE7 Beta 2 drops the feed's xml-stylesheet directive, if one > exists, and replacing with IE7's own stylesheet containing the gray to blue > gradient background with the MS RSS extensions for navigation/collation. > This rendering is all pre subscribe, so the feed has not been converted to > RSS yet. I had an email conversation last week with Sean Lyndersay about > this, and his take is that "this is a feed intended for rendering in an > aggregator" and "Publishers' don't have control over the look of their feed > in" other readers. > > My counterpoint is that this is non-standard approach because the > xml-stylesheet directive is a standard XML directive, and IE7 (the reader, > not the browser) is essentially saying that RSS/Atom are not first of all > XML and should be handled in some proprietary way through IE's > display/navigation layer. Feeds that use the xml-stylesheet to provide > custom navigation are now in IE7 required to use the IE7 navigation xsl, > which is not standard. The solution, I believe, is that the IE7 proprietary > rendering (and xml-stylesheet removal) be the default ONLY when none is > provided, which is probably most cases. > > I would call IE7 dropping xml-stylesheet directives a data lose issue. So > my question is, what is the right thing for the browser to do? When is a > browser a feed reader, and thus (I guess) simply can drop elements from the > feed at will? Can a browser just drop xml-stylesheet directives at will? > > Thanks, > James > -- <M:D/> M. David Peterson http://www.xsltblog.com/
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