Experimental blog that is only available to read through a feed reader

Re:Experimental blog that is only available to read through ... by chrismorgan on Friday May 03, 2024 @02:45PM (#40250890)

That was fifteen years ago, back when most browsers tried to do useful things with feeds. They’ve all long since given up on that.

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Re:Experimental blog that is only available to read through ... by basscomm on Friday May 03, 2024 @02:50PM (#40250939)

The link is from 2009, but nothing has changed.

I tried everything I could think of to style my RSS feed but nothing worked until I added a bunch of garbage at the top of the file to keep the browser from ignoring my instructions, and this was all the way back in 2020.

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Re:Experimental blog that is only available to read through ... by chrismorgan on Friday May 03, 2024 @11:30PM (#40254571)

I’ve been styling Atom feeds with no bother since 2019, and worked with RSS feeds briefly in 2020 and likewise experienced no issues.

The two browsers you were complaining about are IE, long dead, and Firefox, which removed its feed reading functionality in 2018. I can only assume that you’re misremembering when you last tried this, because what you’re describing simply doesn’t happen any more.

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Re:Experimental blog that is only available to read through ... by basscomm on Sunday May 05, 2024 @08:22AM (#40264312)

> I can only assume that you’re misremembering when you last tried this, because what you’re describing simply doesn’t happen any more.

You assume incorrectly. The earliest date in my rss file is August 2019, which is the test entry I made to make sure it worked.

Firefox dropped Live Bookmark support in December 2018, version 64.0. I was using Debian stable and Firefox ESR at the time, which was Firefox 60.9.

So I did get bitten by this, but I decided to try styling rss feeds at the exact wrong time.

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