http://weblogs.asp.net/zroiy/archive/tags/IE7/default.aspxTags: IE7enCommunityServer 2007 SP1 (Build: 20510.895)http://weblogs.asp.net/zroiy/archive/2008/08/06/making-your-site-more-rss-browsers-friendly.aspxWed, 06 Aug 2008 15:14:22 GMTc06e2b9d-981a-45b4-a55f-ab0d8bbfdc1c:6490978zroiyzroiy0http://weblogs.asp.net/zroiy/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=6490978http://weblogs.asp.net/zroiy/archive/2008/08/06/making-your-site-more-rss-browsers-friendly.aspx#comments<p>&#160;</p> <p>Both IE7 and Firefox 3 are embedded RSS on page aware, meaning that in order to improve user usability they provide a one click RSS subscribe button. <br />Here is how it looks like :</p> <ul> <li>IE7 when <strong>enabled </strong>(from cnn.com) <br /><a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/blogs/zroiy/WindowsLiveWriter/MakingyoursitemoreRSSbrowsersfriendly_1004E/image_2.png"><img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="155" alt="image" src="http://weblogs.asp.net/blogs/zroiy/WindowsLiveWriter/MakingyoursitemoreRSSbrowsersfriendly_1004E/image_thumb.png" width="487" border="0" /></a> <br /></li> <li>Firfox <strong>enabled</strong> <br /><a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/blogs/zroiy/WindowsLiveWriter/MakingyoursitemoreRSSbrowsersfriendly_1004E/image_10.png"><img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="72" alt="image" src="http://weblogs.asp.net/blogs/zroiy/WindowsLiveWriter/MakingyoursitemoreRSSbrowsersfriendly_1004E/image_thumb_4.png" width="497" border="0" /></a> <br /> <br /></li> <li>IE7 <strong>not enabled</strong> (from bbc.com) <br /><a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/blogs/zroiy/WindowsLiveWriter/MakingyoursitemoreRSSbrowsersfriendly_1004E/image_8.png"><img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="104" alt="image" src="http://weblogs.asp.net/blogs/zroiy/WindowsLiveWriter/MakingyoursitemoreRSSbrowsersfriendly_1004E/image_thumb_3.png" width="493" border="0" /></a> <br /></li> <li>Firefox not <strong>enabled <br /><a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/blogs/zroiy/WindowsLiveWriter/MakingyoursitemoreRSSbrowsersfriendly_1004E/image_12.png"><img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="55" alt="image" src="http://weblogs.asp.net/blogs/zroiy/WindowsLiveWriter/MakingyoursitemoreRSSbrowsersfriendly_1004E/image_thumb_5.png" width="496" border="0" /></a> </strong></li> </ul> <p><strong></strong></p> <p>&#160;</p> <p>Now you ask , what makes these nice buttons to be enabled or disabled. It's pretty simple, it is basically just a &lt;link&gt; directive placed within the &lt;head&gt;&lt;head/&gt; section of the page.</p> <p>here is a simple example</p> <p>&lt;link rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot; title=&quot;Roiy Zysman's Blog&quot; href=&quot;<a href="http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_latest.rss""><a title="http://feeds.feedburner.com/zroiy" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/zroiy">http://feeds.feedburner.com/zroiy</a>&quot;</a>&gt; </p><img src="http://weblogs.asp.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=6490978" width="1" height="1">ASP.NetFeedFirefox3General Software DevelopmentIE7RSSUsability