On Jan 16, 2006, at 4:21 PM, James Holderness wrote:
For example, below are the results of some tests I've run on 15
aggregators. The tests included the use of a <div> tag as the root
element, a <p> tag as the root element, and an <html> tag as the
root element (i.e. a complete xhtml document).
The following applications worked with all three tests:
BlogBridge 2.7
Bloglines
BottomFeeder 4.1
Google Reader
Snarfer 0.1.2
The following applications worked with the <div> tag and the <p>
tag, but failed to handle a full document (the <html> tag):
FeedDemon 1.5
GreatNews 1.0.0.354
Newz Crawler 1.8.0
RSS Bandit 1.3.0.38
SharpReader 0.9.6.0
Out of curiosity, what constitutes success in the <html> case? I'm
mostly curious about the browser based readers. If they displayed
the content within a webpage, but failed to strip out the <html>, </
html>, <body> and </body> tags and <head> section (assuming the test
feed contained one), would that be a success or failure? What did
the apps that failed do in the <html> case?
