Archive for June, 2007
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Wednesday, June 20th, 2007One of the great things about RSS is that it’s being used all over the world in countless ways. Millions of sites publish RSS feeds and hundreds of products consume those same feeds. The downside of this popularity, however, is that with that many implementations, there’s bound to be some variance in how and when sites implement […]
Reading feeds in Right-to-Left order
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007In the last few weeks, we have got some questions about how to display the IE7 Feed View in RTL (Right-To-Left) reading order, which is used by several languages.
The good news: we do have support for RTL.
IE decides whether to show a feed in RTL reading order based on one of three things:
The language […]
Still Gone? Ok – got it!
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007Sam Ruby pointed out HTTP 410 GONE support in feed readers or rather the lack thereof. He links to the list of User-Agent strings that continue to request the feed that is gone. One of the entries points at the Windows RSS Platform as an “offender”:
Windows RSS Platform/1.0 (MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1)
It’s […]
Windows Live Spaces goes RSS-crazy
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007It’s been quiet here for a couple months, but plenty of things have been happening in the RSS world. Most recently, Windows Live Spaces had an update (more at the Space Craft blog).
Mike Torres, all-powerful lead PM on the Spaces team dropped me note to point out that they went RSS-crazy in this update, […]
Feeds Plus: An Intern Adventure
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007Last summer, we had a couple of interns on the RSS team here in IE: Nate Furtwangler, a developer intern, and Chrix Finne, a Program Manager intern. Nate and Chrix both did an amazing job helping us to ship IE7 and Vista, and they also found the time to knock out a really cool project. Here’s a […]
Feeds not updating?
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007We’ve received some reports of users noticing that their feeds subscription stop updating after upgrades. Our investigations show that these tend to occur after upgrades from one pre-release build of Windows Vista to another version.
If you’re encountering this issue, first make sure that the feed URL is still valid by manually updating the […]
Patent Applications in the RSS space
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007It’s always fun when a story hits the blogosphere while you’re stuck on a plane.
This will be short, because I’m connecting over a 14.4K modem line (I have the deepest sympathy for folks who still do this every day!), but I just want to say a few basic things about the RSS-related patent applications mentioned in the […]
Enclosure Download
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007A while ago I posted details about the RSS Platform Download Engine. That post focused on downloading of feeds, but did not include additional details on enclosure downloads.
Enclosures are, as most readers know, files that are “attached” to items in an RSS feed. Typically, a publisher will include a reference to a binary file, which […]
Windows Vista and Feeds
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007As noted pretty much everywhere on the web, Windows Vista launched (for businesses) last week.
Windows Vista includes IE7 and the Windows RSS Platform, and is therefore the first Windows operating system to ship with built-in support for RSS (and the first OS of any kind to have RSS support built-in as a native platform component).
Windows Vista is, […]
Thank you.
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007It’s been a hectic week.
Between getting thrown in a fountain (that’s my boss, Group Program Manager of IE, but almost everyone went in at some point), and being filmed for Channel 9 video (say hi to Arvind, Will and Cindy, about half of the RSS test team), I forgot to post a note here. But, I figured […]