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Authored by: sjk on Jun 02, '06 09:07:44PM

A couple suggestions for the comments feed:

In NetNewsWire at least, the top information line runs together with the first line of the comment. Example:

[Original Article: 10.4: Add Motorola V710 Bluetooth support to iSync • comment by: lgp] With iSync 2.2 at least, you need to make one other change to the MetaClasses.plist under the "Services" array under ServiceName -> com.apple.bluetooth -> ServiceProperties:

That would be much easier to read with a blank line between the "[...]" and first comment lines.

Any chance the comment (and original hint) author name could appear as the Creator (in NNW headlines)? Not sure what that's called in RSS terminology.

Thanks!



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Authored by: robg on Jun 03, '06 05:40:34AM
"In NetNewsWire at least, the top information line runs together with the first line of the comment. Example:"

OK, fixed that one (error: I was using \n for a newline instead of a simple HTML br tag :) ).

"Any chance the comment (and original hint) author name could appear as the Creator (in NNW headlines)? Not sure what that's called in RSS terminology."

This is beyond my technical knowledge, but it was explained to me that RSS 2.0 doesn't support Author as a field (while Atom does). I could serve the feed as an Atom feed, but prefer (for a few reasons) to keep it as an RSS feed. So we've chosen to embed the info in the feed itself. With the new line breaks, though, it's much more readable.

-rob.

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Authored by: robg on Jun 03, '06 05:42:12AM

FYI, it may take a bit of time before the line break change makes it into the feed, but it's done...

-rob.



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Authored by: sjk on Jun 03, '06 04:11:12PM
... it was explained to me that RSS 2.0 doesn't support Author as a field (while Atom does)
That's what I'd thought but didn't have time to double-check before posting.
I could serve the feed as an Atom feed, but prefer (for a few reasons) to keep it as an RSS feed
I'm curious why but you don't have to explain. :-)
With the new line breaks, though, it's much more readable
Definitely -- I'm satisfied. Thanks for fixing that so quickly.

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