Not sure if this is entirely relevant here, but wanted to let people know that we recently launched a 1-click subscription mechanism for FireAnt that I believe may be the first such attempt to consider Microformats: < http://microformats.org/wiki/xoxo-brainstorming#Subscription_information >
Bloggers can easily embed a FireAnt subscription button into their site by copying the code from: < http://FireAnt.tv/buttonmaker > This code includes a link with the original RSS URL in the href attribute along with rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" and an onclick javascript handler to popup a small window at the following URL: http://FireAnt.tv/subscribe?rss_url=[RSS URL] This popup includes a short explanation of subscription, a link to download FireAnt if the user doesn't already have it, and a link that will launch FireAnt and auto-subscribe to the RSS feed passed through the GET query (so its really a 2-click process). The original RSS URL is also included at the bottom of this window so as to be interoperable with other aggregators. An example of this in action can be found on the sidebar of my blog: < http://joshkinberg.com/blog > I know this isn't a universal subscription method and doesn't solve the problem of having multiple subscription chicklets for various RSS aggregators... That's not really the problem we were trying to solve though. However, I do think its a nice step in the direction of interoperability. Any feedback is appreciated. Thanks, Josh http://FireAnt.tv _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
