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Firefox Live Bookmarks

Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 2:49 pm
by Alex_Leipzig
Has anyone experienced problems with loading the feed from the News module as a live bookmark in Firefox. I just can't get it to work. Would I have to modify the feed to make it Firefox-compatible? In general, my feed validates without problems.

Re: Firefox Live Bookmarks

Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 8:36 pm
by Ted
I didn't try it on Firefox.  It works great with Safari, though.  I wonder what the issue is...

Re: Firefox Live Bookmarks

Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 1:10 pm
by arl
I have the problem as well, actually 2 problems:
  • The Firefox live bookmark does not work. You can add it too bookmarks as you are suppose to, but the folder only contains an error message saying that it failed to load the live bookmark. I have tested the feed in Sage, Bloglines and Google Desktop - all of work fine.
  • If I insert the XML button in a page and then click on it I am asked what I want to do with a PHP file. The content that is downloaded is correct (no, I am not getting the content of the PHP file), but Firefox (and IE) believes it is a PHP file. I spent some time yesterday looking into it, but I cannot find the problem...
Allan

Re: Firefox Live Bookmarks

Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 11:25 am
by trick
I've gotten the same probblem. The feed is well formed and everything, I think the problem might be the Content-Type header (it's application/rss+xml) although I haven't confirmed it yet.

Re: Firefox Live Bookmarks

Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 11:13 am
by zieren
This problem still persists in Firefox 1.4.1. It also affects cmsmadesimple.org itself. Has anyone found a solution or workaround yet?

Re: Firefox Live Bookmarks

Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 11:47 am
by Ted
If anyone can figure out what I'm doing wrong, I'd be very greatful.  AFAIK, the header type is correct and works great in Safari's RSS reader.  There must be one little trick I'm missing.

Re: Firefox Live Bookmarks

Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 1:36 pm
by lemkepf
Check this out:
http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url= ... turnid%3D1

Edit: i dont' think you can have links in the RSS feed description like that.

Re: Firefox Live Bookmarks

Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 4:23 pm
by Ted
They're contradicting themselves.

There is the sample RSS file that the site links to: http://static.userland.com/gems/backend ... ample2.xml

Re: Firefox Live Bookmarks

Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 4:32 pm
by Ted
Ah, I see how to do it now.  A better example is: http://static.userland.com/gems/backend ... xample.xml

So, description rips out all tags and content:encoded sends the actual html.  I'll do the same and see how it goes.

Re: Firefox Live Bookmarks

Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 5:13 pm
by zieren
I might be jumping at shadows here, but are the single quotes really correct in




I changed rssfeed.tpl to use double quotes, but to no avail. Nevertheless, I did check some other sites and found they're all using doulbe quotes. Wishy, you talked about this probably being a small thing, so I figured maybe... :-)