The RSS Customer Experience

re: The RSS Customer Experience

Jon Galloway — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 06:50:00 GMT

One big step that's pretty easy to do is put a stylesheet on the feed (with media type set to screen, just in case). Aggregators will ignore it, but when someone clicks on the XML button they see a page that explains what a feed is.

Adam mentions it in your link - his RSS looks nice in a browser:

http://www.kalsey.com/rss.xml

Pretty simple to implement:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="/common/rss.xsl" type="text/xsl" media="screen"?>
<rss version="2.0">
...

re: The RSS Customer Experience

Alex Barnett — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 06:57:00 GMT

Jon,

Thanks for pointing this out. A lot nicer.

Alex.

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