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July 12, 2006
OPML autodiscovery
Daniel Larson says - "We have a nice autodiscovery tag that's standard for RSS-- how about a standard OPML autodiscovery tag?"
So just as we now see the standard orange feed icon in the Firefox address bar when we visit a webpage (eg. blog) with a feed can we expect to see the blue OPML icon show up beside it if there are also OPML urls on the page, in some future version of the Mozilla browser? Now that would be very handy for use with services like Zimbio which produce customizable OPML for topic portals based on user preferences. Just click on the icon and add the complete hierarchy to your feed grazer or next generation aggregator, eg. like the grazr* panel below for a customized view on the Entrepreneurship portal on Zimbio -
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There is already a tag for opml autodiscovery specified in OPML spec draft 2
"8. If an HTML page is generated using an OPML document, you may use an HTML link element to provide for "auto-discovery" of the OPML. The rel attribute value is "outline", the type "text/x-opml", and of course the href attribute contains the address of the OPML document."
i have already put a tag like that in my blog and there is already an extension for wordpress that does all the works!
http://www.chipstips.com/?p=150
Im very interested in this topic couse i am devoloping something based upon opml autodiscovery
Posted by: sergio | Oct 13, 2006 10:25:17 AM
Thanks Sergio, I'm looking forward to learning more about what you're developing.
Posted by: James Corbett | Oct 13, 2006 10:42:04 AM
Thanks for the link, Sergio -- and for suggesting the enhancement to the widget for autodiscovery.
Posted by: Sterling Camden | Oct 13, 2006 8:10:50 PM
