HTML LINK to RSS source
I’m doing my bit for the weblog community domino effect. Mark, and others, have added <link/> tags to their weblog HTML, to point to the RSS feeds for the respective weblogs. I think this is a good idea, so have done it too in this, my Blosxom-powered weblog.
I do remember sitting in on an RSS BOF at last year’s OSCON where we discussed the idea of having an index.rss at the website’s root, rather like the robots.txt file. This <link/> based pointing is a nicer approach, as there’s an explicit relationship between the RSS XML and what it describes.
What’s more, Mark has a nifty bit of Javascript that grabs any RSS URL that it finds in this new <link/> home, and bungs it at Radio Userland‘s localhost-based webserver invoking a subscribe on that RSS feed. Very nice. I don’t run RU, nor use IE much, but nevertheless this would work, even with Blosxom, because I’m running bladder 