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The little rss icon - what makes it glow?

  • Artigo

About once or twice a day, we get an email from someone asking why it is that IE 7 isn't detecting an RSS feed on a particular page that clearly has a feed associated with it.

Usually, this means that there's an RSS or XML button somewhere on the page. The user can visually tell that there's a feed, so why can't IE?

Well, feed auto-discovery works in a very simple way. Instead of trying guess the intent of the publisher and trying to figure out whether there's an little orange (or blue, or burnt sienna, for that matter) icon, IE will look for a specific "link" element in the HTML of the page that needs to be added by the publisher. We have published a short guide to what we're looking for here: https://blogs.msdn.com/rssteam/articles/PublishersGuide.aspx.

So, if a page doesn't have that "link"element, then IE7 won't detect the feed. Most sites that have RSS or Atom support include this element, but some haven't gotten around to it yet. So, if you find one, be sure to send them the link to the guide above.

Alternatively, if a site does have all the right information, please add the site to our feedback wiki, and we'll investigate it.

Thanks,
Sean

Comments

  • Anonymous
    February 10, 2006
    The blogs.msdn homepage does not light up.
  • Anonymous
    February 10, 2006
    Your link to the article is bad when viewed in an aggregator as it doesn't include the full URL.
  • Anonymous
    February 12, 2006
    How do I view RSS feeds after I subscribe to them.  I have searched the Index and Help, and can not find a way to view the RSS feeds to which I subscribed.  Does IE 7 offer anything like the Sage add-in for Firefox?
  • Anonymous
    February 12, 2006
    Hello!
    Why I can´t add url feeds manually on IE7?
    I need to wait the RSS Service to find feeds in pages?
    It's not cool.
    []'s
    Shinji
    shindesign@gmail.com
  • Anonymous
    February 22, 2006
    The comment has been removed
  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2006
    When viewing the built in RSS viewer in Internet Explorer 7 there is a right column. Would you explain how to add a Date, Author, Title? Most of the feeds that I have been looking at are blank.