Safari is selecting Atom when it finds both RSS and Atom on offer.
We're looking at this behavior (and changes thereto) for a future
revision. Your data on why this doesn't work well for you is
definitely valuable, and I'll make sure it's noted in the bug report
tracking this, #4126691.
...
In fact, I just put it in there!
Thanks for the feedback.
Regards,
Jessica
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On Aug 13, 2005, at 10:47 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote:
I use an external RSS aggregator -- Shrook 1.x -- to read feeds on
my Mac. I very much like being able to click on a feed link, or on
the "RSS" icon in the location bar, to subscribe to a feed.
However, I sometimes run into a problem where Safari sends Shrook
an Atom URI, even though an RSS URI exists. Because Shrook 1.x does
not understand Atom feeds, I'm left with a useless subscription.
For example all the feeds on TypePad (http://www.typepad.com/) have
links for both Atom and RSS; e.g., bigpicture.typepad.com (to pick
one at random) has:
Safari always sends the Atom feed link to Shrook. Perhaps it always
sends the first one it encounters?
At any rate, this isn't a very smooth user experience.
I can see a few ways out of this (in rough order of desirability);
* Have some sort of negotiation protocol between Safari and
aggregators that it dispatches to (ideally based upon media types)
* Have a preference regarding what kind of feeds you want to send
the aggregator
* Have separate icons in the location bar for RSS and Atom
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