RSS Auto discovery
Wikka RSS feeds
Wikka feeds can be 'autodiscovered' by most feed readers and now also by some browsers supporting this mechanism.
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):
- 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.
RSS autodiscovery support
The RSS autodiscovery feature is currently supported by:
Firefox
Opera (7.5+)
Safari (2.0+)
Yahoo toolbar for IE (5.6+)
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