Sunday 29 June 2008 @ 9:09 am
After adding the RSS feed to our Silicon Valley Code Camp Web site I noticed that the feed was not discoverable by Internet Explorer. That is, the little RSS Icon on the toolbar was not finding it.
After a little searching around, I discovered that a header tag was needed. Further searching found a nice web site that helped create this header tag for me.
http://www.feedforall.com/autodiscovery.htm
Then, all I had to do was add that tag to my master page and the page is now discoverable!
1: <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
2: <head id="Head1" runat="server">
3: <title>Silicon Valley Codecamp 2008</title>
4: <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"
5: title="Code Camp Rss Feed"
6: href="http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/Rss.aspx" />
7: </head>
Lines 4-6 are the header tag created by the autodiscovery tool listed above.
That’s it. Hope this helps. I did not include it in my series on building the code camp web site because it seemed kind of a small point.
June 29th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
This is related to your subject, but involves generating the feed rel meta tag yourself:
http://petesbloggerama.blogspot.com/2008/05/add-dynamic-link-relalternate-rss.html
July 14th, 2008 at 9:28 am
It may seem like old stuff Peter but what are you using to get the nice colored code with alternate colored rows in this page?