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#1 2006-01-23 10:59:30
- digicammad
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Getting RSS feed to work in Firefox browser
I’ve just implemented an RSS feed on my blog site and, thanks to the help of the members here, have confirmed that it does work properly. However, whenever I try to access the feed from the Firefox RSS facility I just get the message ‘Livemark feed failed to load’.
I know that RSS works in Firefox as I am using it okay on other sites, so there must be something which it doesn’t like about the Textpattern way of doing things.
Has anybody found a solution to this yet? All advice welcomed.
Cheers
Ian
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Re: Getting RSS feed to work in Firefox browser
Can you use your Firefox on the feeds in the Dev weblog?
Can we have a link to your feed, please, it’s hard to troubleshoot, when you all data we have is “failed to load”.
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#3 2006-01-23 11:45:00
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Re: Getting RSS feed to work in Firefox browser
Sorry, I didn’t put the link up as I thought it could just be a generic problem. The blog is at http://www.aholidayinturkey.co.uk/ahitblog
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#4 2006-01-23 11:53:25
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Re: Getting RSS feed to work in Firefox browser
“Can you use your Firefox on the feeds in the Dev weblog?”
Yes that works fine. Clicking on the orange icon in the status bar gives the option to subscribe. Put the bookmark on the folder and when I click on it I get a list of articles.
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Re: Getting RSS feed to work in Firefox browser
Please update to the most recent release of textpattern(4.0.3).
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#6 2006-01-23 12:12:34
- digicammad
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Re: Getting RSS feed to work in Firefox browser
Will that resolve the problem?
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Re: Getting RSS feed to work in Firefox browser
hi digicammad,
i can see your feed in my browser (firefox 1.5/mac) and I can also load it in sage
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#8 2006-01-23 14:57:15
- digicammad
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Re: Getting RSS feed to work in Firefox browser
Cheers Colak. Maybe it’s been fixed in 1.5 then, I’ll take a look.
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#9 2006-01-23 15:18:10
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Re: Getting RSS feed to work in Firefox browser
Just updated to 1.5 and still not seeing the articles Colak, would you mind telling me how you linked to it in Firefox?
edit – in fact now Firefox doesn’t even see the site as having a feed.
Totally confused now. :0(
Cheers
Last edited by digicammad (2006-01-23 15:23:28)
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#10 2006-01-23 16:48:17
- digicammad
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Re: Getting RSS feed to work in Firefox browser
Okay, I’ve upgraded my site to the latest version of Textpattern and still can’t see the feed in Firefox. Not only that but the new version is behaving differently and my layout is broken. :0(
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Re: Getting RSS feed to work in Firefox browser
I can see the feed, but it doesn’t work. I’m willing to bet it’s for the following. Your site is running in messy url mode, but your feed is specified as /rss/.
As far as coding goes, remember, XHTML is lowercase, and tags such as meta,link,img,and base are self closing (EX: <img src=”“ alt=“required” />). Also, your source code has loads of made up, non-functioning textpattern tags. <code><read_more></code> doesn’t exist, nor does <code><next_prev></code> and <code><section_list></code>.
For read more (plus a conditional):
<code>
<txp:if_excerpt>
<txp:excerpt>
<txp:permlink>Read More</txp:permlink>
<txp:else />
<txp:body />
</txp:if_excerpt>
</code>
Next/previous in an article list:
<code>
<p id=“sub_nav”><txp:older>past entries</txp:older> <txp:newer>New Entries</txp:newer></p>
</code>
section list (let’s combine what we learned!):
<code>
<txp:if_article_list>
<!— for an article list —>
<h3><txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink></h3>
<txp:if_excerpt>
<txp:excerpt>
<txp:permlink>Read More</txp:permlink>
<txp:else />
<txp:body />
</txp:if_excerpt>
<txp:else /><!—individual article—>
<h2><txp:title /></h2>
<txp:body />
</txp:if_article_list>
</code>
I stick <code><p id=“sub_nav”><txp:older>past entries</txp:older> <txp:newer>New Entries</txp:newer></p></code> in a footer, so things don’t get messed up.
in your footer thing…
<code>
<txp:if_article_list>
<p id=“sub_nav”>
<txp:older>past entries</txp:older>
<txp:newer>New Entries</txp:newer>
</p>
<txp:else />
<p id=“sub_nav”>
<txp:link_to_prev><txp:prev_title /></txp:link_to_prev> <txp:link_to_next><txp:next_title /></txp:link_to_next>
</p>
</txp:if_article_list>
</code>
Last edited by deldindesign (2006-01-23 21:57:39)
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#12 2006-01-23 22:08:44
- digicammad
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Re: Getting RSS feed to work in Firefox browser
Thanks for that, I’ll study it when I have a little more time.
The read_more and next_prev tags are css elements, which I created to specify the style for that text. I’m still trying to learn CSS though so no doubt I’ve done something wrong, which is why the validator is saying they don’t exist.
Cheers
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