Autodetecting RSS Feeds with Firefox

With the latest Preview Release of Firefox, I've noticed that it autodiscovers RSS feeds, flagging pages containing RSS alternatives in the lower right corner of the page as this example snapshot of Slashdot shows. As I've been browsing around the web, it's been interesting and surprising to see some of the sites that have RSS alternatives. It's also been interesting to see which sites (including alot of Blogs) have RSS enabled, but don't have the proper code in the head of the page to flag the content for browsers such as Firefox to detect. Am I talking about you? Well here's all you have to add to your HTML head to make your RSS feed autodetectable: <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="http://www.sumoc.com/blog/rss.cfm?mode=full" />

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Phil Ringnalda You're missing one quote in your sample code, at the start of alternate.
Cameron Childress Thanks for the catch, I've corrected it in the posting.

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