{"id":83,"date":"2006-12-19T14:46:22","date_gmt":"2006-12-19T13:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=83"},"modified":"2006-12-19T14:46:22","modified_gmt":"2006-12-19T13:46:22","slug":"bugs-in-ie7-rss-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/83-bugs-in-ie7-rss-platform.html","title":{"rendered":"Bugs in IE7 RSS platform?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I welcome the introduction of the RSS platform in IE7; I think a central repository for RSS feeds is a great idea, even though Outlook&#8217;s RSS&nbsp;integration strikes me as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=54\" target=\"_blank\">totally broken<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But is it reliable? I was using it to browse Jensen Harris&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/jensenh\/\" target=\"_blank\">excellent blog<\/a> and noticed that the entries were from somebody else. A look at the feed properties reveals all:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/images\/buggyrss.gif\"> <\/p>\n<p>It appears that the RSS store had somehow zapped the blog, but kept its title attached to a different feed, Bruce Schneier&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">security blog<\/a> as it happens.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think I have much hope of discovering why this bug occurred, unless someone from the team would care to comment, but it does cast doubt on the RSS store&#8217;s reliablity. Or could it be a problem with my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=69\" target=\"_blank\">blogreader app<\/a>? The only time this writes to the store is when it marks a feeditem as read, which it does by setting the IsRead property on a FeedItem reference. Strange.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:f47aa5c1-fd02-4a7f-9201-711b9bcea2db\" contenteditable=\"false\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/rss\" rel=\"tag\">rss<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/ie7\" rel=\"tag\">ie7<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I welcome the introduction of the RSS platform in IE7; I think a central repository for RSS feeds is a great idea, even though Outlook&#8217;s RSS&nbsp;integration strikes me as totally broken.&nbsp; But is it reliable? I was using it to browse Jensen Harris&#8217;s excellent blog and noticed that the entries were from somebody else. A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/83-bugs-in-ie7-rss-platform.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bugs in IE7 RSS platform?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,80,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-software-development","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}