On Mon, 7 Sep 2009 15:35:26 +0000 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <[email protected]> wrote:
> I use Liferea as my feed reader and I discovered that when I double > click on a feed link I get the osmChange XML. > > This is because Liferea is using one variable internally to keep track > of the <link> href for each feed entry. When confronted with multiple > <link> elements will overwrite this variable each time it sees a new > one. So it always ends up using the last <link>. > > Here's a snip from one of our feeds for reference: > > <link type="text/html" > href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/2395774"; > rel="alternate"/> > <link > href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/changeset/2395774"; > type="application/osm+xml" rel="alternate"/> <link > href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/changeset/2395774/download"; > type="application/osmChange+xml" rel="alternate"/> > I think that might have been the markup I gave you when you put them together. > I thought I'd move the the text/html link to the end to work around > this. But that might trip up some other feed readers which implement a > different flavor of stupid. > Feed readers (when I last tested for them a few years back) implement all kinds of flavours of stupid. They make web browser testing seem like a birthday present. This sounds like a bug to be logged with the Liferea project. All you can really do for feeds (as with web IMHO) is throw up your hands and say "sod it, I'm following the standard". Which you've done. Still your workaround is probably harmless, as you are asking us to test for you. Ahem … > So can you (yes you!) please test our feeds in your favorite feed > reader and see how this (and other things) work or don't work and > reply to this mail with the results. > I use Liferea too (only because Akregator keeps crashing), but I'll check on Feedreader for Windows tomorrow @ work. The other biggie is maybe Google Reader. I can't do that for you, but thousands can. :~) > Here's an example feed to play with: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/%C3%86var%20Arnfj%C3%B6r%C3%B0%20Bjarmason/edits/feed > Cheers _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
