Tim Bray: Sam Ruby tells me there are some lingering corner-case bugs; report ’em and I bet they’ll fix ’em
Let’s find out
Tim Bray: Sam Ruby tells me there are some lingering corner-case bugs; report ’em and I bet they’ll fix ’em
Let’s find out:
I will say that it feels strange to find Bloglines more responsive than Google Reader, Google Sitemaps, and Blogger. (Hint, hint, nudge, nudge)
My understanding is that Bloglines still has problems with type="xhtml" in general. E.g. my updates feed has:
<title type="xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Tantek's Updates</div></title>
And my understanding is that Bloglines (still) shows the literal text:
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Tantek's Updates</div>
as the title of my feed, whereas it should just show:
Tantek's Updates
I don’t know if it’s because of the lack of an xml:base, but netvibes doesn’t like the links in your feed either...
Yeah, you broke Sage on me too, Sam (for about the 3rd or 4th time).
Yeah, you broke Sage on me too
If any of these tools can provide me with a credible schedule for when they will fix their bugs, I may be willing to accommodate. In fact, I did so before.
Sam,
- link/@href: Not Fixed yet, but I expect it will be within a day or two.
- author: Fixed.
- source: Fixed.
- updated: Fixed.
- MathML / SVG Support: Not Yet. We are looking into it, MathML seems like it might be easier, but SVG will be difficult / not very useful unless we could better parse inline CSS chunks without causing security issues.
The example from Tantek’s Updates is also fixed.
For some of these, they might not be ‘fixed’ in old posts, due to how our parser works, but in new posts going forward, it should be correct.
-Paul
Paul: EXCELLENT!
The hard part of MathML and SVG isn’t CSS, but rather the requirement that the page produced must be well formed XHTML, and with modern browsers that means no document.write
. To my knowledge, I am the only person who has ever attempted to support such a thing — using a combination of Planet, the UFP, and BeautifulSoup along with a number of patches. Perhaps someday MathML can be used inside of HTML tag soup, but today is not that day.
I’ve verified a number of the items you reported already; for others, I imagine I may need to wait until there is enough “fresh” content, but if you follow through with xml:base’s default (and perhaps look in the the issue with category), I’d be a happy camper.
I guess this answers the question of what it takes to get Bloglines to fix bugs.
1. Become Sam Ruby.
2. ...
Not exactly sure how or why, but this entry crashes
my firefox, giving the following error:
firefox-bin: cairo.c:86: _cairo_error: Assertion `status > CAIRO_STATUS_SUCCESS && status <= CAIRO_STATUS_INVALID_DSC_COMMENT' failed.
Firefox 1.5.0.4, fairly recent, on gentoo ~ppc (which means bleeding edge).