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Sam Ruby: It seems self evident to me that the Microsoft Feed API is going to be important enough that people are going to want to make sure that their feeds work well with this new platform.

However, not everybody is in a position where they have ready access to a machine running Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) with IE7Beta 2 Preview loaded on it.

So, to make life easier, I’ve converted Dave Johnson’s program to a web application, and I’m looking for volunteers to host it.  If you are in aposition to help with a public server, please leave a comment herewith your URL.

The Feed Normalizer makes it easy for you to see how the Windows RSS platform normalizes your feed, or any feed for that matter. Let's help the Microsoft Feeds API live up to it's package name, which, by the way, is Microsoft.Feeds.Interop.

Maybe some of the RSS Team bloggers would like to help?

Tags: topic:[ie7], topic:[rss], topic:[atom], topic:[vista]

James Snell: IE7’s feed reader support isn’t all that bad, but if MS wants developers to use it as a foundation to build new, interesting applications, MS needs to get out the way and provide an implementation that let’s developers work with the data as it exists out on the web. Normalizing subscribed feeds to their version of RSS is troublesome at best.

Tags: topic:[ie7], topic:[rss], topic:[atom], topic:[vista]