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iWeb '09 RSS feed widget broken again... Anyone else having this issue?

Hey all,

I and a few others have written and commented on this topic before. It appears the RSS feed widget offered by Apple on iWeb '09 isn't working again.

The RSS feed from my iWeb blog is working as I have tested it out on separate RSS feed readers online, so the link is live.

However the RSS widget that you can embed on your site is not reading and displaying the feed.

One of the previous problems with this RSS widget is that it would not update from the feed on a regular basis. As of last week, it was working (sort of) updating itself probably every 48 to 72 hours. However it isn't working at all now. The widget display a box with the letters "RSS" in the center.

Working from iWeb '09, the widget box displays an error message as well.

Anyone else having this issue?

Thanks!

MacBookPro 15", Mac OS X (10.5.7), 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM

Posted on Oct 5, 2009 2:05 PM

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Jan 10, 2010 2:26 PM in response to Dieds

I've been working with this RSS widget for the past few days and have noticed that it is very sensitive to malformed RSS. Even when Safari's RSS reader would render it correctly, the iWeb RSS widget was hosed. This RSS validator site was priceless: http://beta.feedvalidator.org/. For the most part, once you fix all the errors it identifies, the RSS feed works like a charm in iWeb. (see now-working RSS widget on my site: http://tinyurl.com/ygl8zt9)

I said "for the most part" because I am now having an issue. Even though a new feed that I'd like to add is valid RSS syntax, iWeb isn't rendering it in the RSS widget. I think the issue is that I have <[!CDATA[ some link ]]> tags in my RSS file. If I remove these and the links that need to be enclosed in them, then it works fine in iWeb. But, what's the point if the links aren't active? If anyone is experiencing this and knows how to get around it, please let me know. (RSS feed that doesn't work: http://idisk.mac.com/stacybranham-Public/what.xml)

Thanks!
Stacy

Feb 10, 2010 3:51 AM in response to BobbyShaw

If I understand correctly the RSS-widget uses mac.com for some of it's "magic"? My RSS-feed is also stuck "loading" this morning. It seems that Apple has some problems with it's server that the RSS-widget uses to display the feeds. I hope Apple fix this soon.


http://www.mac.com/1/up/comments/scripts/loc.js
http://www.mac.com/1/up/comments/scripts/utility.js
http://www.me.com/1/up/comments/scripts/search.js

Feb 10, 2010 5:58 AM in response to Josue.Alvarez

I suggest that everyone report the bug via the Safari "Report Bug to Apple..." selection under the Safari menu. Support does not always check the support discussions, so unless everyone here is calling in, Support may not know about this issue. Include screenshots and page code in your Safari Bug Report.

BTW: I'm having the same problem at http://macroads.com. Feeds worked fine yesterday into the evening but did not finish loading today.

Feb 10, 2010 8:07 AM in response to Pastor Jim

And again, I suggest that everyone report the bug via the Safari "Report Bug to Apple..." selection under the Safari menu.

Pastor: Tech Support does not code the interoperability between say iWeb 09 and Safari, or iWeb 09 and internet browsers. IWeb's issue is probably a bug in their code. Tech Support can only guide you through 'user error' issues, or workarounds within user accessible software and hardware.

Since this issue is more global; i.e. everyone's site was working one day and then not the next, it is a coding or server side (how the code is executed) problem.

NOTE: the "Report Bug to Apple..." selection under the Safari menu DOES NOT SAY: "... Safari Bug ...". I predict that if enough "Report ..." via the Safari menu, Apple's software people will start talking to each other and resolve their interoperability issue between iWeb and internet browsers (Safari).

Calling Tech Support is only going to get someone who will work through a troubleshooting script. If the troubleshooting documentation they have doesn't cover interoperability between the web development software and the internet browsers, then everybody is stuck until someone dares to report it as a bug. When Apple's other programs get a bug reporting feature directly, I'll be happy to utilize that feature, but until then Safari's Reporting link allows you to send both a screenshot and the web page code so that someone on the coding side of things can see that this needs a fix.

Thanks Bobby!

iWeb '09 RSS feed widget broken again... Anyone else having this issue?

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