blogs.msdn.com — Ah crap! Microsoft’s next-gen browser, Internet Explorer 7, will apparently only support well-formed XML-based RSS feeds. We are going to be in for a wild ride. If Microsoft has their way, I’m pretty sure not even FeedBurner feeds will validate as well-formed.
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bitwiseplatypusNov 7, 2005
This is a GOOD thing, moron.
kwoffNov 7, 2005
Finally
m_whoreNov 7, 2005
This is off-topic of the story, but people in the comments section talk about non-compliance with css. Here:<a class="user" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/10/12/480242.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/10/12/480242.aspx</a>In reguards to "a sad history of leaks and security holes", IE is has also been around for a long time. Now I love Fx and Opera. But PLEASE give the IE dev team credit for trying.
lorianNov 7, 2005
Great news!@unmarked: If any browser can get away with now allowing broken code it is IE, if someone writes something that doesn't work in IE they will quickly fix it.By the way, Firefox already encorces well-formed XML, so, yes, feedburner feeds are well formed
pkscoutNov 7, 2005
embrace, extended, extinguish. I agree in principle that supporting only well formed XML RSS feeds is good. Too bad Microsoft doesn't do that for HTML. What they did was "support" the standard, then release Windows only extensions to "enhance" the experience, then they made everyone else irrelevant by leveraging their illegally maintained monopoly.
montekNov 7, 2005
+Digg because this is *GOOD* news.
ethos42Nov 7, 2005
I just wanted to make sure people understood a bit of the XML Terminology here:Well-Formed XML means the XML Parser can actually read it. It has to comply to the most basic rules of XML. Meaning, tags must be nested properly (all tags must be closed in the order they were opened), the document can only have 1 root element, etc.Valid XML means it can be compared to a DTD or XSD and only the elements specific and the format for those elements exist.Making IE 7 only accept Well-Formed XML only means it will only try to display those RSS feeds it can actually parse. This really isn't anything new, all browsers that support XML should realisticly only be able to support well-formed documents as the XML parsing engine should choke when it encounters a non-closing tag or an improperly nested element.
bastawhizNov 7, 2005
Its about time someone put their foor down. And I hope they don't support all those old 0.9x versions of RSS. If you can't understand XML or RSS 2.0, then go use FeedBurner (which I believe is valid).