stupid blogs
I feel the need to rant.
Why don’t some stupid blog hosting websites have a link to the RSS feeds right on the page? There’s already 95,232 links on there, would adding ONE more absolutely kill you? Instead, I have to open up Firefox to load up the page (some of us use Mozilla, ya jerk), click on the little RSS icon, add it to my bookmarks, edit the bookmarks, grab the URL and then copy it into my RSS reader.
This would all be much simpler if they just added a stinking link.
Whoops, I just noticed mine doesn’t even have one. Well, it does, but with the stupid feed: in front of it. I better go fix that. Heh.
July 17th, 2006 at 1:28 pm
If you use Liferea, there’s a Firefox extension called FeedBag (http://liferea.sourceforge.net/feedbag/) which adds the feed to Liferea when you click on the RSS icon. It doesn’t help you with Mozilla, but it cuts a couple of steps out for you. Of course, if you use Straw or Blam or something else, it’s no help.
July 18th, 2006 at 3:35 am
In Mozilla, do View -> Show/Hide -> Site Navigation Bar -> either Show Always or Show Only As Needed, as you prefer. Then when a page has an RSS feed, it should show up on the bar (just below the bookmarks toolbar) as More -> Other Versions -> somethingorother. Click on it, then copy the address out of the URL bar. Maybe not quite as convinient as Right Click -> Copy Link Location, but it’s better than having to use Firefox.
July 18th, 2006 at 8:07 am
If you use a reader like Bloglines (although I’m sure others have them too), you can put a slick little “subscribe” button in your FireFox toolbar. One click, and it automatically detects any feeds (whether they’ve linked to them or not) and allows you to pick which one you’d like to subscribe to. Very easy and very slick.
July 18th, 2006 at 10:29 am
The link is usually already there in the page, but not visible. Do a view source, search for a “link” tag up in the “head” tag and copy the address you see there. No need to open a new browser. The link tag from one of my websites looks like this (removing the angle-brackets since WordPress will either try to render them or strip them out):
link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”RSS 1.0″ href=”http://brainshed.com/blog/rss/1.0/brainshed.xml
Grab the url in the href= part and copy that into your reader. This is what Firefox and friends use to auto-detect the presence of a feed.
Enjoy.
July 31st, 2006 at 7:46 am
I use Firefox and Akregator and when I run into a blog that only has the feed URL embedded in the page (the RSS icon shows up in the address bar) I just copy the current URL into Akregator which automatically extracts the feed URL from the HTML. I can’t imagine Akregator is the only feed reader to be able to do that.