IE7 feed reading view is “forced control”
OPML grazrs look out!
Well, I know most probably don’t work with XSL but I wanted to get your attention.
This latest post from the Microsoft Team RSS Blog explains how feed reading view will work in IE7 and gives guidelines for mime-types to use for RSS feeds.
I’ve brought this up before, and here is why I don’t like it.
One of the coolest and under-utilized things about delivering xml to the browser was the ability to add a stylesheet transformation to the document.
And it worked pretty well with Firefox and IE.
Now I can’t accompany an RSS feed with an xsl stylesheet and have the browser IE render it on the fly. It goes directly into feed reading view.
It doesn’t seem unreasonable or technically difficult to check for a stylesheet and use it if it is present, and only go into feed reading view if it is an RSS feed AND no stylesheet is present.
Considering how much contribution Microsoft is making with SSE and SLE and RSS for other types of applications in general, this seems to counter that thinking, by assuming the party serving the feed has only one use in mind.
I hope they don’t do this for OPML! We want to create rich browsable applications with it, right guys?
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