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nickw
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Hi all,

Please can someone show me how to edit the header of snitz so that I can publish Feeds in IE7. I see someone implemented this here recently....
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I See the IE instructions for HTML are here if that helps? http://blogs.msdn.com/rssteam/articles/PublishersGuide.aspx
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MarcelG
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Guys, sorry to dissapoint you but the oxle rss feeds do show up in Maxthon, at least in the latest release of Maxthon. Works as a charm. And, Nick, yes, the code I used changes the rss feed to the forumspecific rss feed. For example on oxle.com:
Code:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://oxle.com/rss.asp" title="RSS: oxle.com">
on the subforum 'the pub' on oxle.com
Code:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://oxle.com/rss.asp?FORUM_ID=35" title="RSS: oxle - the pub">

The code I use is this (removed the language dependant code):
Code:
if Instr(strScriptName,"default.asp") > 0 or Instr(strScriptName,"forums.asp") > 0 or Instr(strScriptName,"forum.asp") > 0 or Instr(strScriptName,"index.asp") > 0 then
	if request.querystring("forum_id") <> "" and IsNumeric(forum_id) = true then
		response.write "<link rel=""alternate"" type=""application/rss+xml"" href=""http://oxle.com/rss.asp?FORUM_ID=" & request.querystring("FORUM_ID") & """ title=""RSS: " & GetNewTitle(strScriptName) & """>"
	else
		response.write "<link rel=""alternate"" type=""application/rss+xml"" href=""http://oxle.com/rss.asp"" title=""RSS: oxle.com"">"
	end if
end if
I've that piece of code in inc_header.asp in the second block of HTML meta tags.<
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Last edited by MarcelG on 02 May 2006, 16:37
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Oh Man!

First, for other people like me who are not used to the code... there are TWO sections in the code that refer to the copyright, put your code under the second...
Marcel! Thanks man... appreciate this! Ill report back.<
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evil Got the latest version of Maxthon myself (or is 1.5.2b21 no longer the latest?), and the RSS reader still doesn't pick up Oxle or my own (which I temporarily hacked back to v0.92 to see if that was the issue). Wonder whats up...<
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nickw
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Nearly there.... I have now added your code, and a single line so that when you have myforum/ (no default.asp etc) it shows the default feed in IE7.
I ended up with this:
Code:

'## RSS Mod for IE Glow
'## Add this line so that feed icon glows even when there is no page specified
Response.Write	"<link rel=""alternate"" type=""application/rss+xml"" href=""http://web2.minasi.com/forum/rss.asp"" title=""Minasi Forum Feed (Main)"">" & vbNewline

'## Marcels Code for feeds to change live with forum ID.
if Instr(strScriptName,"default.asp") > 0 or Instr(strScriptName,"forums.asp") > 0 or Instr(strScriptName,"forum.asp") > 0 or Instr(strScriptName,"index.asp") > 0 then
	if request.querystring("forum_id") <> "" and IsNumeric(forum_id) = true then
		response.write "<link rel=""alternate"" type=""application/rss+xml"" href=""http://web2.minasi.com/forum/rss.asp?FORUM_ID=" & request.querystring("FORUM_ID") & """ title=""RSS: " & GetNewTitle(strScriptName) & """>"
	else
		response.write "<link rel=""alternate"" type=""application/rss+xml"" href=""http://web2.minasi.com/forum/rss.asp"" title=""Minasi Forum Feed (Main)"">"
	end if
end if

The only thing remaining is to get it working by forum category... could this be done?
In your Debt.<
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MarcelG
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Originally posted by AnonJr
evil Got the latest version of Maxthon myself (or is 1.5.2b21 no longer the latest?), and the RSS reader still doesn't pick up Oxle or my own (which I temporarily hacked back to v0.92 to see if that was the issue). Wonder whats up...
The 'toast style' notification doesn't allways pop up. You should however see the small soapy icon in the bottom status bar:
For example like this: (click for larger version)
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AnonJr
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I disabled the "toast" notification. While searching for coding answers it gets rather anoying... but with it enabled or disabled I don't see the notification in the status bar...
I do appreciate the help, but this isn't a high priority - just really annoying.
Nick, I'd imagine that it would be similar to what you did to add the forum:
Code:
'## RSS Mod for IE Glow
'## Add this line so that feed icon glows even when there is no page specified
Response.Write	"<link rel=""alternate"" type=""application/rss+xml"" href=""http://web2.minasi.com/forum/rss.asp"" title=""Minasi Forum Feed (Main)"">" & vbNewline

'## Marcels Code for feeds to change live with forum ID.
if Instr(strScriptName,"default.asp") > 0 or Instr(strScriptName,"forums.asp") > 0 or Instr(strScriptName,"forum.asp") > 0 or Instr(strScriptName,"index.asp") > 0 then
	if request.querystring("forum_id") <> "" and IsNumeric(forum_id) = true then
		response.write "<link rel=""alternate"" type=""application/rss+xml"" href=""http://web2.minasi.com/forum/rss.asp?FORUM_ID=" & request.querystring("FORUM_ID") & """ title=""RSS: " & GetNewTitle(strScriptName) & """>"
	elseif request.querystring("cat_id") <> "" and IsNumeric(cat_id) = true then
		response.write "<link rel=""alternate"" type=""application/rss+xml"" href=""http://web2.minasi.com/forum/rss.asp?CAT_ID=" & request.querystring("CAT_ID") & """ title=""RSS: " & GetNewTitle(strScriptName) & """>"
	else
		response.write "<link rel=""alternate"" type=""application/rss+xml"" href=""http://web2.minasi.com/forum/rss.asp"" title=""Minasi Forum Feed (Main)"">"
	end if
end if
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nickw
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Cool... I'll give it a go ;)
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nickw
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That worked! :) Thanks<
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Glad you got everything working. smile<
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