Jeff CutsingerSemantic Nonsense → HTML5 feed autodiscovery

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HTML5 feed autodiscovery

I received an e-mail through my contact form stating that this page doesn't have a feed autodiscovery link. Here is the relevant markup:


<link href="http://jeff.cutsinger.org/news/feed/"
      type="application/atom+xml"
      rel="feed alternate"
      title="Jeff Cutsinger">

This works in Firefox. Sadly, I haven't really tested it in any other browsers. It seems that it conforms to the current HTML5 spec's definition of feed and alternate. In addition, it seems like the Right Thing to do from a semantic standpoint, because it is exactly what the link is: an alternate representation of the current document (it has everything this one does or a close approximation) that is also a feed. The individual entries don't have the link because it isn't a feed for them nor is it an alternate representation, whereas the comments page has a feed for the comments.

Am I doing something wrong?

Comments

  1. You might consider including such links on entry pages too, just minus the 'alternate' link relation.

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