/rss
/rss
Posted Apr 27, 2009 22:33 UTC (Mon) by jpetso (guest, #36230)In reply to: /rss by corbet
Parent article: A couple of new LWN features
display the feed item as "complete" HTML page (the site the feed links to)
instead of the feed itself. I cannot really figure out why such users
would complain about a characteristic that they have (hopefully?) enabled
by themselves. Or maybe some weird web-based feed reader dismisses the
feed item altogether and only shows the linked items, which is the only
case I can think of that might trigger the request for the /rss page.
Anyways, here's a version that should satisfy both regular users and
whatever weirdos who came up with this braindead idea: In the feed item,
you add a link "Complete article" as part of the regular feed item text,
and everything else (including the real "link" property that points to the
/rss page) stays the same as it is now. The /rss page also stays the same,
and does not get the added link from the feed item.
That way, I've got (a) the teaser / editorial comment in the feed item,
(b) a link to the actual content and comments in the feed item too, and
(c) nothing changes for the folks who view the linked HTML instead of the
feed item.
