I use the RSS feed reader in IE under Vista (yeah, yeah...) to get my blog updates. I sometimes don't bother to go to the blog website itself to read a single short post although I do for longer or multiple posts, or to have a look round a blog I don't know, or to follow comments.
This morning, Obnoxio the Clown mentioned Alastair Campbell's blog which I haven't visited before, for what I think are bloody obvious reasons, but something he quoted from Campbell chimed with something I wrote myself only yesterday.
So I popped over to AC's and clicked the RSS icon to pull his blog into my feed reader. Yes, one really ought to keep an eye on the enemy, but...so many bastards, so little time.
Campbells' feed/RSS/xml page looks like this:
Quick read... yep, worth a closer look. I clicked on the main title, 'Alastair Campbell', and that click took me, not to Campbell's blog but to this page:
I kid you not. Honestly.
(Clicking on any of the individual post titles works as it should.)
Now, I know Microsoft ware is full of crap but if this is a glitch in my IE reader I'd like to know why it's the only one and does not affect any other feed - and I have hundreds of 'em.
I tried opening the page in the Firefox feed reader but (I hate bloody Firefox) it won't show the full feed page, only individual posts, so that's no help.
If it's a coding fault, rather than the smoking gun one can only dream of finding, it may be corrected later in the day. Meanwhile, any ideas?
Have you tried an online RSS reader?
ReplyDeleteI've been using Bloglines for about three years now. It's highly configurable, robust, and packed with great features (such as the 'Pin' option, which allows you to preserve items for future reference). Works flawlessly in Firefox too.
Plus, of course, you can track your feeds from any computer.