Blogger, Firefox 1.5.0.2, and Atom 1.0
Jeffrey Tucker: A special thank you to Sam Ruby for fixing the Schola’s atom feed in Firefox live bookmarks. He performed selflessly and brilliantly without asking anything in return.
Jeffrey found me through SourceForge. I explained that just because the Feed Validator didn’t support Atom 0.3 didn’t mean that his feed wouldn’t work, but he insisted that his feed didn’t work, and he was “desperate” for a fix.
As his feed was produced by Blogger, I provided a PHP version of the Python CGI that I had used for AtomEnabled, and suggested he redirect atom.xml to atom.php.
At which point, his feed produced warnings about missing titles, and finally enough of the story was revealed that I could see the real problem.
Apparently, with Live Bookmarks in Firefox 1.5.0.2, titleless entries show up as dates, as opposed to an auto-generated excerpts that Jeffrey was used to seeing. By simply going into Bloggers Settings => Formatting, and setting Show Title field to “Yes”, he could enter titles that would show up in Live Bookmarks. As he didn’t want these titles to show up on his webpage, he simply removed references to $BlogItemTitle$ in his template.
When Blogger steps up to Atom 1.0, Jeffrey can simply drop the redirect.