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nreece
on Aug 2, 2007
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Create RSS from ANY web page
Which page on homestarrunner.com? All I can see is non-HTML Flash.
tocomment
on Aug 3, 2007
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yeah, it's all flash. But couldn't an RSS generator at least check the date the page was updated from the headers?
nreece
on Aug 3, 2007
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It's not about updation date. It's about content. The RSS generator will "scrape" indexable content, viz HTML. It cannot read Flash content (because its embedded in a non-standard format), just like a search engine bot (Google) can't.
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