The RSS Platform IE8 User-Agent String

Hello! Just a quick note on some important information just posted to the RSS team blog. The RSS platform is introducing an updated User-Agent string for use with Internet Explorer 8. Check out the details in Walter’s latest post.

Kristen Kibble
Program Manager

Comments

• Anonymous
  February 27, 2008
  PingBack from http://www.biosensorab.org/2008/02/27/the-rss-platform-ie8-user-agent-string/

• Anonymous
  February 28, 2008
  Do we need a <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="WinRSS=2.0" /> in rss xml file?

• Anonymous
  February 28, 2008
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• Anonymous
  February 28, 2008
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• Anonymous
  February 28, 2008
  In regards to marketing would really appreciate knowing if my feed is being viewed as a subscription or not! The same thing applies for direct requests versus bookmarks/favorites. If you add this stuff you'll win many people over because I don't think Firefox, Opera, or Safari pass such information in any way.

• Anonymous
  February 28, 2008
  I didn't read the RSS post clearly enough, the RSS useragent is used only when the person is subscribed. It would be nice to have "favorite" useragent for visitors who visit our sites if they clicked a favorite. ;-)

• Anonymous
  February 28, 2008
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• Anonymous
  February 29, 2008
  This is clearly another example of the IE team needlessly creating extensions to well-defined standards in order to capture marketshare.

• Anonymous
  February 29, 2008
  @Fiery: Nice to see you back.  It's far from "clear" what exactly you're complaining about?  Are you saying that the user-agent string is somehow an extension to a standard?

• Anonymous
  February 29, 2008
  @Fiery "Starks" Kitsune Could you have the webstandards board create something and make it a standard so we can move the web forward and not hold back? Thanks.

• Anonymous
  March 02, 2008
  Yahoo! - Since Mix 08 is this week (Wed-Fri) that means that later this week we'll get news that they could have told us last week! Yeaaaaahahahahahah!

• Anonymous
  March 03, 2008
  Runny, how three out of four IE8 posts ever are about browser detection, namely the ugly web-fragmenting IE-8 mode switch, the new IE8 browser version string and yet another browser version string for IE8/RSS. Looks like IE8 will really be about seemless interoperability...

• Anonymous
  March 03, 2008
  Somebody asked "Do we need a <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="WinRSS=2.0" /> in rss xml file?" If the IE8 HTML switch is a success, then probably at latest with IE9 we will get exactly such a thing.

• Anonymous
  March 03, 2008
  @Fiery: this has nothing to do with web standards.

• Anonymous
  March 03, 2008
  don't even bother releasing IE8 if you can't install it alongside IE7.

• Anonymous
  March 04, 2008
  this is perhaps the best news ive heard on this blog since the first announcement of ie7 being worked on

• Anonymous
  March 07, 2008
  This is clearly another example of the IE team needlessly creating extensions to well-defined standards in order to capture marketshare.