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Stylesheets in RSS?

25 June 2004   

 

Stylesheets in RSS?

menu of boilerplate menu


A tonne of boilerplates, pick one and it is placed in your outline, where your cursor is.

I use Radio's outliner to post new news items, and thus have access to the excellent biolerplater. So I can whack chunks of stylesheet stuff easily into my postings, or my stories.

stylesheetsInRssasis
Some of the stylesheet info in an outline.

All very good, when I can link to the actual stylesheets in the headers of my HTML #homePageTemplate. But when it comes to others reading my site via the RSS version, the style info is completely lost. What I could do is write the whole of the stylesheet info out. Thus:
<span class="captions"> would become:
<span style="color:#737373;font-style:italic">
Easy enough, using boilerplates. But, some of my stylesheets use different sizes and positions, depending on how the viewer wants to read them (see pick a style sheet that suits you at the top of this page), different screen resolutions are an example. So, I'd be constraining myself in my HTML version for the RSS version. Unless I used the RSS callbacks to replace the HTML linked stylesheets with the explicit versions for RSS.

But, then I'd have the RSS purists after my ass. They don't want any formatting. Just plain info. Some don't even want pictures. And some RSS readers, I believe, cannot even see HTML let alone render it correctly.

What would I say to them? Screw you! You don't like my feed, bugger off, and unsubscribe! Or I could make another feed that's just text...
 


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