Warren Seen » IE7 http://warrenseen.com/blog freelance software developer Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:54:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 IE7 not registering as feed: handler? http://warrenseen.com/blog/2006/02/09/ie7-not-registering-as-feed-handler/ http://warrenseen.com/blog/2006/02/09/ie7-not-registering-as-feed-handler/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2006 15:44:47 +0000 warren http://warrenseen.com/blog/2006/02/09/ie7-not-registering-as-feed-handler/ I installed the IE7 beta today to do some testing for our current product and noticed that IE7 doesn’t play nicely with the feed: URI.

Now I realise that this is not a W3C or IETF standard or anything like that (like that has ever meant anything to MS), but it’s become quite the de facto method for firing off your feed reader.

Given that IE7 can render a feed nicely now, would it not make sense to install itself as a handler for feed: URIs (providing you can change this, as you can with ftp:, mailto:, etc to your preferred app) .

To do otherwise creates somewhat of a usability headache if the user does not have a feed reader installed and registered to handle the feed: scheme.

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