Using the channel image

[Clinton Gallagher]

What's been learned when using the channel image? The browser style sheets
will not display it. Do any of the feed readers done so?

I've been thinking of how a channel image may be used as a "web bug" to log
the usage of the web feed. I assume others have thought of this and have
tried doing so. What if anything is known of this usage?

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[James Holderness]

Post by Clinton Gallagher
What's been learned when using the channel image? The browser
style sheets will not display it. Do any of the feed readers
done so?

FWIW, I know there is some support for the channel image element in RSS 2.0
feeds. I don't know whether the readers that support the RSS 2.0 element
also support the 1.0 version, but I would think it's fairly likely.

In my tests, Firefox displayed the image in its feed preview (but obviously
not in LiveBookmarks); IE7 didn't display the image in its feed preview, but
did show it when you subscribed to a feed; other readers I know of that
support the image in some way include Abilon, Awasu, Bloglines, RssReader,
RSS Bandit, SharpReader and YeahReader.

Regards
James

[BKDesign Solutions]

itunes does as does magpie parser if wanted when showing a feed on a website.

Bruce Prochnau

----- Original Message -----
From: James Holderness
To: rss-dev-***@public.gmane.org
Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2007 4:08 PM
Subject: Re: [RSS-DEV] Using the channel image

Post by Clinton Gallagher
What's been learned when using the channel image? The browser
style sheets will not display it. Do any of the feed readers
done so?

FWIW, I know there is some support for the channel image element in RSS 2.0
feeds. I don't know whether the readers that support the RSS 2.0 element
also support the 1.0 version, but I would think it's fairly likely.

In my tests, Firefox displayed the image in its feed preview (but obviously
not in LiveBookmarks); IE7 didn't display the image in its feed preview, but
did show it when you subscribed to a feed; other readers I know of that
support the image in some way include Abilon, Awasu, Bloglines, RssReader,
RSS Bandit, SharpReader and YeahReader.

Regards
James





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[Clinton Gallagher]

The replies to the question regarding the display of the channel's image has
been good news thank you.

Now, from a developer's perspective is using the channel image a good way to
record usage or are other tactics a better metric? When customers use a
service which generates a webfeed the customer's feed is served from their
servers so then what? I've considered hosting the channel's image would be a
reasonable method to record usage.

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