261784 - I can get NO RSS feeds to display as other than raw code.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Arthur Voigt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

RSS Extensions are not recognized:  http://slashdot.org/index.rss
This is the case for all RSS that I tried even from your own web site.

Error message:

        This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated
with it. The document tree is shown below.
      
-
	<rdf:RDF>
-
	<channel rdf:about="http://slashdot.org/">
<title>Slashdot</title>
<link>http://slashdot.org/</link>
<description>News for nerds, stuff that matters</description>
<dc:language>en-us</dc:language>
-
	<dc:rights>
Copyright 1997-2004, OSTG - Open Source Technology Group, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
</dc:rights>
<dc:date>2004-09-27T13:

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. open firefox
2.  go to http://slashdot.org/index.rss
3.

Actual Results:  
Copy of top of screen:
       This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated
with it. The document tree is shown below.
      
-
	<rdf:RDF>
-
	<channel rdf:about="http://slashdot.org/">
<title>Slashdot</title>
<link>http://slashdot.org/</link>
<description>News for nerds, stuff that matters</description>
<dc:language>en-us</dc:language>
-
	<dc:rights>
Copyright 1997-2004, OSTG - Open Source Technology Group, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
</dc:rights>
<dc:date>2004-09-27T13:

Expected Results:  
A properly formatted RSS page.

I also just redownloaded the lastest filefox and still get the same problem.

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

copy the url
open Bookmarks->manage bookmarks->file->New Live Bookmark
and paste in the location
Now it works

INVA

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

Note that there's also a RSS icon in the lower right. Click on it, and the
bookmark will be created automatically. It doesn't work everywhere, but it sure
does on Slashdot.