2 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16462107, 4 years agoModern, neat, modest. Thanks. There is not enough previewer for complete happiness.
Developer response
posted 4 years agoConcerning the new issue about https://www.skidrowcodex.net/feed/:
Unfortunately that server is misconfigured, as it incorrectly reports the Content-Type of the feed as being text/html, when it actually should be one of (in order of most to least preferable): application/rss+xml, application/xml or text/xml.
To make it work anyway, I'd have to create non-standard exceptions, which I'd rather not do; I'd like my add-on to keep adhering to the correct standards, instead of littering it with all sorts of nasty hacks for edge cases.
So, in this case, I kindly want to ask you to contact the webmaster of https://www.skidrowcodex.net and request that they change the Content-Type response-header for the feed to either application/rss+xml, application/xml or text/xml. You can also ask them to contact me if they need more details about this technicality.
I'm sorry I couldn't be of more help in this case, for now. However, if similar issues are reported for more feeds I might reconsider implementing these exceptions in the future (maybe a Linefeed dirty-mode option, for instance). I hope you understand. Cheers.
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Thanks for the kind review and the feedback. Glad to hear you like the add-on and thank you for bringing the issues to my attention.
The feed URLs you mentioned appear to be implementations of older RSS versions, which I didn't realize differed so much from the current (simplified) versions. I was not aware that well-known websites like Slashdot still used those implementations either, so I will implement support for this in the coming days. Shouldn't take too long, as the old format is quite similar to current versions.
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The issue you reported has been fixed in version 0.0.10, which is now available for download.
I removed the earlier statement I made about that the mentioned RSS feeds would not get discovered on the homepages. This was a slip-up on my part: I accidentally conflated two different concepts. Everything will work as normal.
Thanks again for reporting the issues!