260603 - lewrockwell.com - Does not detect RSS newsfeed for this site

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Steven Ng]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

Does not detect RSS newsfeed for http://www.lewrockwell.com.  Feed is detected
in windows version.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Navigate to URL http://www.lewrockwell.com
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Actual Results:  
Web site is rendered, but the RSS button does not appear at the bottom of the window

Expected Results:  
Render the site.  RSS button should appear at the bottom of the window

Website maintainer attempted the same actions using the Windows version of
Firefox and saw the RSS button appear at the bottom of the window.  It appears
to apply only the the Mac OS X version of Firefox.

Comment 1

[Ryan Polk (Quark)]

Not showing up Windows either.  I don't think the author understood correctly. 
There is a "validRSS" icon on the author's website itself, bottom of the left side.

The author needs to add a <LINK> tag for the RSS feed for Firefox to pick it up
correctly.

Comment 2

[Felix Miata]

Conforming summary to TFM item 10 at 
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tech-evangelism/site/procedures.html#file-new

Comment 3

[Adam Stevenson [:adamopenweb]]

The RSS icon is displayed, issue seems to be gone now. Closing.