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ex machina

well, it's way passed due, but all of the vast wasteland now supports rss autodiscovery . if that doesn't mean anything to you then fughetaboutit, otherwise read on for the gory details.

i was rereminded that i wanted to support autodiscovery after reading mark pilgrim's excellent ultra liberal rss locator :

"One of my biggest pet peeves about the current generation of news aggregators is that they don't work very hard at finding RSS feeds. The other side of this coin is their stubborn insistence on making RSS visible. RSS should be completely invisible."

oh, how i long for the day when we can be rid of all those silly orange xml icons cluttering up valuable real estate and confusing my grandma.

then, with impeccable timing, brent simmons throws in support for rss invisibility in the latest beta of netnewswire , so i download it and gave it a shot for the various pages on my site and found out that it's not quiet as liberal in its design as mark's ultra liberal rss locator . hi. ho. so i decided to do the right thing finally and support not-so-liberal rss location.

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8/20/2002 07:06:00 PM 0 comments

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