Bookmarkify RSS Feed Integration Improved

Thursday, March 27th, 2008 by Gary Keorkunian
Posted in Bookmarkify |

This update includes some improvements to how Bookmarkify is integrated into your RSS feed.

The first is a correction to an issue having to do with the More Box. Depending on the reader being used, the More Box may show up in all its glory. Of course, this isn’t really appropriate. I thought this was corrected before, however, it turns out that WordPress gives you two different ways to test whether or not we’re looking at a feed or the actual page. I’ll spare you the details in this post but you can find the explanation here if you are interested.

The second is a new option to exclude with Widget from your RSS feed all together. Because the issue with the More Box is fixed, I think it’s a good idea to deliver the Widget with your feed, however, you can turn it off if you want. You can find the new option on the Bookmarkify Options Page. This came as a code submission and recommendation from Bookmarkify’s up-and-coming “co-author”, ThaNerd. The code submission actually made me aware of the More Box issue mentioned above and thus led to its resolution as well. Thanks, ThaNerd.

For those that examine the code closely you will also see that I am in the process of building an option to add the Widget to the Sidebar. This is not yet completely implemented for WordPress, however, I have a basic working version on a few of my other pages. You can see it in action here.

There is another issue who’s resolution has eluded me and that is the site icon display in Internet Explorer. IE does not display favicons from some sites unless or until the favicon has already been saved to your cache. I am not really sure why this is nor how to resolve it. Please post any ideas you have as comments this post.

I continue to work on the Sidebar enhancements and expect to have something that works fairly well up by early next week.

Have a great day!!

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2 Responses to “Bookmarkify RSS Feed Integration Improved”
  • ThaNerd Says:
    March 29th, 2008 at 7:36 pm

    The icon error seems being a IE issue, so there’s not much you can do about it. Remember that despite the original favicon implementation required the image to be a windows “.ico” file, nowadays, most web image formats are used, including animated gifs, pngs and the “vista 32 bits” icons, which are of course not supported under old versions of Windows…

    I think the only way to fix this would be to have the plugin making a cache of all those icons, possibly converting all of them to a known format (say, PNG) in the process, and link from the blog server instead of target server. BTW i noticed that there was an icon (don’t remember which) that often failed to download from the service’s server, resulting in display of the “alt text”. That’d be fixed by the cacheing technique. But on the other hand, that’d result in more bandwidth use for the wordpress host.

  • Robin Says:
    April 10th, 2008 at 12:55 pm

    The icon issue is a big one. I would really like to use this plugin, but I can’t do it if half the icons don’t display in IE. Why not store the favicon within the plugin folder?

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