Here is the situation the rss which now includes images and line returns using HTML markup. This irritates the hell out me, because I feel that it is leaving the original point of rss, simple syndicated news text and replacing it with little web page feeds. Why not just visit the site if you want style and images, right? Well, a bunch of people have asked me for the images. This leads to the problem where I have to put the entire entry text into CDDATA to blog it from being validated. Those of you that understand this, what do you think?

I mean it is convenient to have the rss feed serve the images, but then having HTML markup in the feed makes it not as "tasty" for others to syndicate. Mmind you other people are doing this all over. For example boingBoing.net, my favorite news on rss at

They even use styles and css. Should I have two feeds?

>>Posted By: paul >>Updated By: paul 09/09/04 18:01

I have been working on more of the behind the scenes stuff on the site. Thanks to some bug reports from (e:sqb) , I decided to work on the rss feeds.

The feeds are now rss 2.0 compliant, have the proper links, and proper time. Ialso added parapgraph returns and images as requested by (e:chris) and his sidekick.



(e:sqb)

Thanks, Paul...I like the new "preview" mode with images and returns but for some reason the entries in my reader are all off by +1 hour.

What reference do you use to code for RSS?

- mike

>>Posted By: paul >>Updated By: paul 09/09/04 02:54 >>Updated By: sqb 09/09/04 08:48

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>>Posted By: paul >>Updated By: paul 09/07/04 18:13 >>Updated By: radio 09/07/04 18:17

I fixed the bug that occured when you used the search box or a the epoetry window to get to a journal entry and the text from the search or the line of epoetry was not highlighted in the journal. Maybe no one even noticed it but it was driving me insane.

--paul

Hopefully, everything is normal now and we can resume documenting our lives

>>Posted By: paul >>Updated By: paul 09/04/04 16:05 >>Updated By: paul 09/04/04 16:07