Quite a while ago Hugh Sasse asked if an individual RubyForge project news page could have an RSS feed. That capability was built into GForge, but I couldn't figure out how to get Firefox to surface it. Hugh had posted a suggestion, but it slipped off my radar for a while.
Anyhow, I added the code he suggested and lo and behold, there it is. So now if you go to, say, the Ruby Windows installer project news page and click on the orange RSS icon in your Firefox address bar, it'll give you two options. Pick the second one and that'll be the project news feed. Huzzah!
I'm still not sure how to twiddle that link tag so that it shows a different name for each feed - when I change the "title" attribute to anything other than "RSS" it seems to confuse Firefox. Suggestions welcome. Update: Hugh suggested a fix, it worked fine, now the feeds are properly labelled. Thanks Hugh!
From what I've found with Google, there seems to be a little flexibility in the scheme.
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=comment/reply/3297/6375
suggests that you can change 'alternate' to 'newsfeed' and it should work, and possibly better for opera as well, though I can't say.
http://www.pixelpost.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-3629.html
and elsewhere suggest that as long as the title includes /\brss\b/i then it should match (that's my generalization of what I have seen). What did you try when it failed?
Posted by: Hugh Sasse | August 30, 2007 at 05:37 AM
Hugh, you're right, it just has to start with (or maybe contain?) 'RSS' - check it out now. Thanks!
Posted by: tomcopeland | August 30, 2007 at 09:44 AM
That's working fine now, thanks. Do you think that as RSS is for news, the individual Project page itself should have its link rel tags treated the same as its News page? Because at the moment each project page just has the one "news for all projects" as its link. Thank you for such attention to detail.
Posted by: Hugh Sasse | August 30, 2007 at 10:49 AM
That's a fine idea, done!
Posted by: tomcopeland | August 31, 2007 at 03:23 PM