On: What Happened to RSS?

[Jaruzel]

The article talks about the unfriendly way a raw RSS feed is presented in the browser and how users do not know what to do with it.

This is easily fixed by adding an XSL stylesheet reference at the top of the RSS XML. The stylesheet not only contains HTML markup to format the XML in a friendly manner, but can also be used to inform the user what to actually do with the RSS feed.

The BBC do exactly this on all their RSS feeds.

[Zababa → Jaruzel]

Here's the RSS of the BBC: http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/europe/rss.xml

[mdaniel → Jaruzel]

> This is easily fixed by adding an XSL stylesheet reference at the top of the RSS XML

I think that only works for Firefox, since I can't recall Chrome ever doing the right thing in that setup

[darekkay → mdaniel]

I can confirm that it's working in Chrome and Firefox. I have created an XSL stylesheet for my feed a couple of weeks ago.

[gerikson → darekkay]

I've recently implemented an Atom feed on a new blog. Do you have any pointers on how to add an XSL stylesheet to it?

Edit: linked submission has an example.

[Jaruzel → darekkay]

I just had a look... nicely done.

Mind if I steal it ? :D

[darekkay → Jaruzel]

Sure!