Rendering stylish rss feeds
I was browsing for a way to do raw rss feeds when I came across this blog post from Darek Kay about styling rss feeds. Don’t ask me why I was searching about doing rss manually, I’m still not sure on what to do if I have that knowledge. Anyway, the blog post was informative. Rather than showing raw, unstyled xml when you click on the rss link (for this blog in particular it’s https://marmar22.tilde.team/blog/feed.rss, although it’ll download the file instead of opening it in the browser. This may be due to it ending in .rss instead of .xml), it links a stylesheet of sorts where it transforms the xml to html and css that your browser can display (at least, that’s how I understand after reading it).
However, I tried opening one of the example rss feeds such as https://darekkay.com/atom.xml in Firefox and it put out an error (in particular it’s Error loading stylesheet: An unknown error has occurred (80004004) followed by the link to the stylesheet in red). This happened with all other examples listed, so I thought it was just broken at some point until I decided to open it in Chromium and it worked like a charm. Huh, I didn’t think this was that obscure of a functionality to only be on Chromium and not on Firefox. It’s only a linked stylesheet right?
Fortunately, it doesn’t seem to be a problem on Firefox’s side this time. What happened was that NoScript, which I have as an extension on Firefox is interfering with the stylesheet loading. I didn’t realise it at the time as the NoScript applet didn’t show a number (which is an indicator on how many scripts have been blocked from executing). However, when I clicked on the applet, it showed an error (In order to operate on this tab, NoScript needs to reload it. Proceed?). Okay… was this something that NoScript wasn’t tested against? I’m not particularly sure…
I guess that’s all. Seems like this went to a tech rant halfway in. Oops :P