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I’ve noticed in some RSS that they use relative URLs, it works fine for the website but it make no sense when we talk about feeds. Imagine you link “download/somefile.zip”, from a desktop feedreader you’ll get a link like this “file:///C:/…./download/somefile.zip” while it should be linked to the website.
Two cases to avoid this problem :
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January 29th, 2007 at 11:06 am
When you validate a feed with relative links at http://feedvalidator.org/ the feed will validate, but only with warnings. You are right, rewriting the relative URLs for the feed would be the right solution - myself I’ve been too lazy to do that till now. For the moment I try to remember to make links with absolute URLs in my posts.
January 29th, 2007 at 11:09 am
Wow, picking up the favicon.ico for comments is *way* cool!
January 29th, 2007 at 11:21 am
Welcome aboard
I’m fan of favicons, i find it better than avatars and doesn’t need a third party to host the icons. it’s just a plugin I installed btw