Those of you who are not Firefox users and who have not upgraded to IE7 yet, would probably not realise that the Libraries Australia website has an RSS feed for their What’s New page. Those browsers can tell if there is a feed available automagically.
I was inspecting the source code to see if I could get an RSS feed set up using Feed43 when lo and behold I noticed that the page itself actually was using a feed. To locate it I had to check out the autodiscovery links in head tags.
So you want to subscribe for all the latest news on the service? — http://www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/rss.xml
If someone at the NLA is reading this, how about advertising the fact that you have a feed available by putting a button/icon on the page?
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October 27, 2006 at 07:21
Thanks for the link. Though I’m a firefox user myself, I use another proggy for my feeds. In cases like this I usually have to view the site source code to find the feed URL to add to my feed reader, as you’ve done. Autodiscovery is good but other methods should be supported too. Just had another look at the LA site and it still requires a URL hack to get access to the Advanced Search.
November 23, 2006 at 05:31
LA is now letting us know there is a feed.
Thanks.