The little rss icon - what makes it glow?

re: The little rss icon - what makes it glow?

jace — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 21:58:25 GMT

I think it would be really helpful if you were to change the color of the RSS discovery icon to green if a user has already added the site's primary feed to their Feeds...

Thanks

re: The little rss icon - what makes it glow?

Julian — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 22:08:23 GMT

No, it is still not working... :(

re: The little rss icon - what makes it glow?

Dr. YSG — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 22:10:43 GMT

1. I would like to be able to refresh all feeds in the "feeds list" rather than to have to right click on each one and select refresh to see if there is new items.

2. Don't you have a way to check if that I only read one new blog item in a bloc, and then unhighlight that item? Pluck keeps track of this. Right now if I read one item then all items are unhighlighted (of course, I would still like the option of saying all items have been looked at).

3. What is the of the "show all"? Italways seems to be on.

re: The little rss icon - what makes it glow?

Dean [MSFT] — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 22:11:50 GMT

Julian can you give a link to what's not working?

re: The little rss icon - what makes it glow?

Geoffrey Sneddon — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 22:28:34 GMT

You may want to think about implementing something like numbers 1 - 6 of http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/08/15/ultraliberal_rss_locator

re: The little rss icon - what makes it glow?

Brad C. — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 22:32:56 GMT

Please examine the link for the publisher's guidelines - you're specifying a relative URL instead of a fully qualified path. This means that users reading this post in a news reader can't click on the link.

re: The little rss icon - what makes it glow?

Arjan — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 23:23:26 GMT

There is a bug with the glowing icon.

If I have two tabs open (this IE blog) and a blank page. Close tab with IE blog switch to blank it is orange do a refresh orange disappears (so far.. so good). BUT now open another blank page. The orange tab is glowing again. Go back to the previous blank page. orange tab is glowing again. ??

re: The little rss icon - what makes it glow?

Ian — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 00:58:44 GMT

Your doing it again MS!!!

Why would we want to add an specific piece of code to our page just for ie?

Just let it pick up RSS the same way firefox does. Problems and confusion solved!

re: The little rss icon - what makes it glow?

Benoit — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 01:06:05 GMT

Ian: Firefox does exactly what is described here, it looks if there is such a link element in the page and pick it from there.

re: The little rss icon - what makes it glow?

Angel — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 01:08:32 GMT

just wondering if there's a master setting to set the refresh time on the rss feeds. Right now I individually need to go into everyone and change from a day to hour or whatever choose.

re: The little rss icon - what makes it glow?

TD — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 01:28:21 GMT

I have not figured out how to manually refresh all the channels without having to select each one. I typically get on my laptop in the morning and evening and want to refresh all at once with one click of the button.

re: The little rss icon - what makes it glow?

Frank M. Kromann — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 01:39:40 GMT

The discovery feature does not work when the page is loaded in a frame. If the same page is loaed without the frames it will see the <link..> and make the icon glow.

re: The little rss icon - what makes it glow?

kL — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 02:10:27 GMT

Yet another good reason not to use frames :)

Looking for <link> only is fine, IMHO. IE could also check for <a rel="alternate"...> (in case some stupid CMS doesn't allow users to modify <head>)

re: The little rss icon - what makes it glow?

{o} — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 02:20:45 GMT

I found this icon often glows without any reason. Especially it glows during the page loading and stops when loading is finnished. And sometimes doesn't.

Feed Usability

Ryan Parman — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 04:27:32 GMT

Well, Mark Pilgrim (a well-respected individual in the 'feed industry') suggested steps that should be taken by feed aggregators to improve the usability of feed-finding: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/08/15/ultraliberal_rss_locator

The Ultra-Liberal Feed Finder (Python; http://diveintomark.org/projects/feed_finder/) does this, and so does SimplePie (PHP; http://simplepie.org), and those are written in web languages.

Surely Microsoft could add this kind of usability to their own feed reader...

re: The little rss icon - what makes it glow?

Bionicmaster — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 06:27:14 GMT

in my case with the Beta 2 Preview, I can't use the rss feeds 'cause when I open leftside bar of favorites and go to feeds, IE7 crash... I don't know if it's my OS language or code, or what.

My OS is Windows XP SP2 Spanish Language

re: The little rss icon - what makes it glow?

codemastr — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 08:18:12 GMT

I just want to say that I DON'T want IE7 to do this crazy RSS detection that people are suggesting. I see it as leading to problems. Adding such features is going to make IE unnecessarily slow, imagine a site that lists 500+ rss feeds as simply <a href="something.rss"> IE will have to download each of the 500 files to see if they are really RSS or not. Can you say DoS? I don't want the website to be able to force my browser to do things that I don't specifically request.

Leave it the way it is. If sites don't want to adopt standards, that's their fault, not IE's. I mean remember the whole debate about "standardizing" the orange icon with Firefox? Why is it now these same people want IE to ignore standards?

re: The little rss icon - what makes it glow?

Xepol — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 09:55:57 GMT

Interestingly, the article suggests that listing the same feed in multiple formats is a serious DON'T, but when you check the page it provides the blog in RSS and ATOM format right there.

Same for any IE Team blog page (seems to be a feature of your blogging software).

Always best to follow your own "best practices" or you are likely to look foolish.

re: The little rss icon - what makes it glow?

Ian — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 14:35:42 GMT

It would be nice if when I'm viewing an RSS feed after clicking the orange icon, I could click the orange icon again to return to the page I came from. The back button's a long way away...

re: The little rss icon - what makes it glow?

Sushovan — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 21:08:09 GMT

I second the problem mentioned by {o} (Friday, February 10, 2006 6:20 PM) here. For me, each and every page that is loading makes the orange icon glow, and stops glowing as soon as the page has finished loading

re: The little rss icon - what makes it glow?

Arjan — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 22:12:05 GMT

For feeds that have been updated you add "(new)" after the RSS feed text of the particular link in the dropdown menu. I would like instead of using "(new)" to just make the updated RSS feeds BOLD. (just the way it is in the favorites center)

re: The little rss icon - what makes it glow?

Brandon — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 12:57:35 GMT

everytime when I go to the weather channel www.weather.com when I use the feed for this site I got this message:

Internet Explorer cannot display this feed
An unknown error has occurred.
Please try again later.

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More Information

re: The little rss icon - what makes it glow?

MasterOfDesaster — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:48:37 GMT

href="/rssteam/articles/PublishersGuide.aspx"

relative urls...bad boys ;)

re: The little rss icon - what makes it glow?

P Cause — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:53:30 GMT

Is there a way to chage the style sheet that is used to display a feed?

Please show Rss on Link Toolbar

Licantrop0 — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 20:22:25 GMT

What about the possibility to add RSS Feed List on Link Toolbar like Firefox?

Look IE7: http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/2042/ie7norsslink0qm.png
and Look Firefox: http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/673/firefoxrsslink4dx.png

re: Please show Rss on Link Toolbar

Arjan — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 20:45:09 GMT

No,
I don't like that cause it's difficult to scroll through.

re: The little rss icon - what makes it glow?

ieblog — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 23:00:26 GMT

MasterofDisaster,

I've fixed that now.

- Al Billings [MSFT]

re: Please show Rss on Link Toolbar

Licantrop0 — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 23:48:24 GMT

[quote]I don't like that cause it's difficult to scroll through.[/quote]

are you serious?

re: The little rss icon - what makes it glow?

Arjan — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 00:27:11 GMT

[quote]are you serious?[/quote]

YEP!

A way to refresh all feeds in IE

Sushovan — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 21:42:49 GMT

There is a way to refresh all the feeds in IE!!
Just go to Control Panel > Scheduled Tasks > System_Feed_Sync_Scheduler.job right click it, and choose Run! That's it!

RedState.org not updating

Neil B. — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 00:17:25 GMT

For some reason, the _display_ (RSS Feed) of RedState.org is never updated. The website feed is getting updated but not the page. Any ideas?

re: The little rss icon - what makes it glow? 2 Click Subscribe Posting with Screen Shot

Rodney Rumford — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 08:34:59 GMT

I have a very simple post on RSS and the simple 2 click subscription process with some screen shots that your readers might find valuable. You can view the blog post here: http://blog.leveragedpromotion.com/item/116664

Great work on a very easy to grasp implementation for RSS subscription. This is going to bring RSS content into the mainstream. Finally !

The autodiscovery tag is a funny thing. No one ever quite understands what it is or how it works. ;)

Rodney Rumford
Founder: Podblaze.com

RSS feeds not auto updating

Soum — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:10:45 GMT

I have added a few feeds. But they are not updating. What might be wrong. I probably read somewhere that feeds don't update when ie7 is running. If that is true, the design should be changed to update feeds irrespective of whether ie7 is running or not, because people like me do keep their browser running 24x7. also when new content is available, there should be visual indication, like, say, the favorites center button glowing.

re: The little rss icon - what makes it glow?

Will — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 19:00:58 GMT

Hey,

Funny enough MSDN's own feeds do NOT auto discover in Vista Feb. CPT. :(

That is:

http://msdn1.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx

lol

cya,

Will

re: The little rss icon - what makes it glow?

Soum — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:48:06 GMT

The rss icon is behaving very badly. If in one tab a page with a feed is viewed and then we move to another tab, the icon is perenially on, even if the page and subsequent pages visited on any tab don't have any feed.

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