Before subscribing to a site’s RSS feed, you can usually click the active RSS button to use a webpage that displays all current RSS feeds for the site Fig below shows the FoxNews.com website’s RSS feed page that appears when you click IE’s RSS button while viewing www.FoxNews.com
On the RSS page, you’ll see the headlines that appear in IE’s RSS reader area when you subscribe to that site. The feeds will be little more than linked headlines that take you to the complete web content. You don’t have to view the web feeds for the site before subscribing; doing so , however, gives you an idea of the kinds of feeds that site provides.
If the feed are the kind you want to subscribe to, click the plus sign next to the Subscribe to this Feed link and Internet Explorer begins grabbing data fed from that site. The Subscribe to This Feed box appears as shown in Figure below. There you can type your own description for the feeds or keep the website’s address for the description. You can store the feeds in IE’s default Feeds folder or create a new folder by clicking the New Folder button and typing a new name.
If you subscribe to several feeds, you’ll want to organize them into folders by feed type. For example, you might want to store your news-related feeds in a folder named News and your entertainment related website feeds in a folder named Entertainment. To narrow down to the feeds you’re interested in viewing at the time, you can expand or collapse the feed folders when you view all your feeds.
Click subscribe to finish subscribing to a feed. At that moment, Internet Explorer begins to grab feeds from that site and stores them in your Feeds folder. If you opted to store the feed in a new folder, that folder appears as a subfolder under your regular Feeds folder.
Some websites use an RSS feed that contains XML code Document Type Definition (DTDs) that Internet Explorer 7 doesn’t support at the time of this writing. The fact IE doesn’t support that kind of feed might limit you from eventually grabbing feeds from certain websites. This means that either Microsoft will update IE to support DTD-based feeds or those websites that use DTD feeds will change t IE’s more universal, non- DTD feed type. Only time will tell. Microsoft is making an attempt to become more XML- centric, especially with Office 2007’s support for XML data, so it’s a surprise that Microsoft didn’t find a way to access DTD-based feeds.
In Windows Vista, when you use Internet Explorer to subscribe to an RSS feed, your sidebar RSS Reader gadget also knows about that same feed. One alerts the other when you subscribe using one of those RSS feeds readers and both track the same RSS feeds you subscribe under either program.
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