RSS Auto discovery

Note:
implemented now in release 1.1.6.2∞

See also:

Explanation of RSS
RssInfo (using Wikka as a feed reader)
WIkkaBetaFeatures

Wikka RSS feeds

A small modification to header.php allows Wikka feeds to be 'autodiscovered' by most feed readers and now also by some browsers supporting this mechanism.

Add the following lines after the stylesheet-related lines in actions/header.php:

<?php
if ($this->GetMethod() != 'edit') {
$rsslink = ' <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="'.$this->GetWakkaName().': revisions for '.$this->tag.' (RSS)" href="'.$this->Href('revisions.xml', $this->tag).'" />'."\n";
$rsslink .= ' <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="'.$this->GetWakkaName().': recently edited pages (RSS)" href="'.$this->Href('recentchanges.xml', $this->tag).'" />'."\n";
echo $rsslink;
}
?>

Feed reader support

To use autodiscovery, you don't need to find out the location of the RSS file, you simply give your RSS reader the address of the web page and the RSS reader will search the page for any RSS links that it can find.

Feed readers with autodiscovery include (in alphabetical order):

Aggie∞
FeedDemon∞
SharpReader∞ (Only the first link is picked up.)

more to follow

Browser support

Link Navigation support

Link navigation support can be found in:

Mozilla

Note that Mozilla will display all alternate links, so these should be labeled as 'RSS' in the title attribute (in addition to the description).

Implemented now, though most screenshots don't show it) --JavaWoman

Lynx

Other browsers

Another browser with support for link navigation is iCab (no screenshot available).
While Opera does have some (limited) link navigation support, this does not include support for <link rel="alternate" ... /> type tags except links to RSS feeds: no support for links to alternate language versions, PDF versions, or whatever alternative versions for a resource you might come up with.