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Autodiscovery and photocast.mac.com URIs

I assume that the experience for people visiting photocast.mac.com URLs in Safari with iPhoto installed is slick as can be (just assuming, since my first Mac since I bought a 512K "Fat Mac" 20-odd years ago is shipping an ever-expanding number of days in the future), but it looks like you accidentally forgot to include the one thing that would change the experience from baffling failure to eventual success for the unfortunate non-Mac users: if the HTML page that http://photocast.mac.com/mrakes/iPhoto/photocast_test/index.rss serves to non-Safari included

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://web.mac.com/mrakes/iPhoto/photocast_test/index.rss";>

between the <head> and </head> tags, then all the other browsers would be able to show their RSS subscription icon, and for most aggregators getting the HTML error page when people thought they were using an RSS URL (after all, it does claim to be "index.rss") would still work out, since most will do autodiscovery when they expected XML but got HTML instead.

And you do want the feeds that your customers publish with your software on your servers to work with the whole RSS community, not just your own aggregators, don't you?

Phil Ringnalda
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