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		tocomment on Aug 3, 2007 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Create RSS from ANY web page 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 [–]

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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