Category Archives: Software

Firefox Live Bookmarks

I just downloaded the Firefox 1.0 Preview Release. A new feature called Live Bookmarks allows you to subscribe and read RSS and Atom feeds in your bookmarks. A button appears in your status bar to let you know there has been an alternate source detected and the MIME type is supported by Live Bookmarks. A blue folder appears in your bookmark folder with an individual bookmark for each item or entry in your feed. I like the placement of the icon in the status bar instead of in the address bar like Safari RSS. Another branding win for the RSS…

RFC3229 for partial feed retrieval

Bob Wyman, CTO of PubSub, details how RFC3229, “Delta Encoding in HTTP,” could be used to help solve the bandwidth problem of syndicated feeds. In order to allow the number of entries returned in a feed to be no more than the total number of new or modified inserted into the feed since the last time any specific client retrieved the feed, I propose that we rely on RFC3229 “Delta encoding in HTML” with a new instance-manipulation method defined to provide feed specific delta encoding….

Klip for Movable Type

I just added a Klip template to my Movable Type installation. The Klip file is defines a RSS file location as one of its elements and adds descriptive tags for consumption by the Serence KlipFolio application. My complete template code is below. I am a single author weblog, so your milage my vary. <klip>   <owner>     <author><MTEntries lastn=”1″><$MTEntryAuthor$><MTEntries></author>     <copyright><MTEntries lastn=”1″><$MTEntryDate format=”%Y”$> <$MTEntryAuthor$></MTEntries></copyright>     <email><MTEntries lastn=”1″><$MTEntryAuthorEmail$></MTEntries></email>     <web><$MTBlogURL$></web>   </owner>   <identity>     <title><$MTBlogName remove_html=”1″ encode_xml=”1″$></title>     <uniqueid><$MTBlogName remove_html=”1″ encode_xml=”1″$></uniqueid>     <version>1.0</version>     <lastmodified><MTEntries lastn=”1″><$MTEntryDate format=”%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S “$><$MTBlogTimezone no_colon=”1″$></MTEntries></lastmodified>     <description><$MTBlogDescription remove_html=”1” encode_xml=”1″$></description>     <keywords></keywords>   </identity>   <locations>     <defaultlink><$MTBlogURL$></defaultlink>     <contentsource><$MTBlogURL$>index.xml</contentsource>     <icon></icon>     <banner></banner>     <help></help>     <kliplocation><$MTBlogURL$>index.klip</kliplocation>   </locations>   <setup>     <refresh>60</refresh>     <referer></referer>     <country>US</country>…

TypePad’s new look

Six Apart introduced new designs for TypePad designed by Dave Shea. The templates focus on mixed media display such as a photo collection. Video and audio are supposed to be better integrated as well, so hopefully Six Apart added support for RSS enclosures. Post via e-mail is also improved, allowing for up to 5 e-mail sources….

Safari RSS at Apple Expo 2004

Today during the Apple keynote at the Apple Expo in Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, spent about 6 minutes discussing Safari RSS and why users should be excited about interacting with RSS instead of their standard HTML sites. Check out the keynote in QuickTime and skip to the 59th minute to watch the Safari RSS demo….