On Oct 17, 2013, at 7:12 PM, Ian Young <[email protected]> wrote:

> It looks like you recently pushed out a (quite nice) new site design, and the 
> feed URLs for W3C news have changed.
>  
> RSS and Atom feeds are now available at http://www.w3.org/blog/news/feed and 
> http://www.w3.org/blog/news/feed/atom, respectively. The *old* site provided 
> autodiscovery to an Atom feed at http://www.w3.org/News/atom.xml. This old 
> URL is now redirecting to http://www.w3.org/blog/news/feed, which is the new 
> URL for RSS, not Atom. Seems like subscribers to an Atom feed should continue 
> to be served Atom if possible.

Good catch.

>  
> In addition, the site <head> still contains the old alternate link element:
>  
>   <link href="/News/atom.xml" rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" 
> title="W3C News">
>  
> This is both pointing to a redirect, and giving a misleading type, since the 
> redirect ends at an RSS feed.

>  
> Thanks!

Thank you for the report. I'll try to have this updated within the next couple 
of days!

Ian

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