Saturday, February 18, 2006 5:12 PM
Thanks to a welcome heads up from Gene Gosewehr, the Director of Information Technology at the State Bar of Wisconsin, I realized last week that it was time to upgrade the feed from Blawg to RSS 2.0.
Why? Because Microsoft's new Internet Explorer, version 7 (IE 7), has a whole host of new RSS subscribe and read features--but they don't seem to work with RSS version .91, which is what I had been limping along with for sometime. Solution? I upgraded my feed to RSS 2.0, and Blawg was immediately back in the good graces of IE 7.
Candidly, for most blawgers out there, this item won't be a worry. Your weblog editing software probably is already using RSS 2.0 (or Atom) and will work fine with IE. If it doesn't today, most likely it will tomorrow. IE 7 is still in beta and I would be very surprised if all of the companies providing weblog products and services are not in compliance with it by the time it goes "live."
But, for those who, like me, have been using an editor and feed that is out of the mainstream, take note of the need for an upgrade.