Apple.com continues Tiger roll-out preparations
Apple this week continued to prep its Web site for the debut of Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger," which is expected in early April. Most recently, the company quietly launched a new Web site that offers customers a list of Apple Support RSS feeds. "Stay up-to-date with Apple's latest technical support articles," reads a description of the site. The site lists over two dozen new RSS feeds that link to support pages for each of Apple's most popular hardware and software products, in addition to a couple that cover technologies like Bluetooth and QuickTime. Scheduled to ship with Tiger is a new version of Safari, Apple's web browser, which boasts RSS support as one of its major new features. Earlier this month, the company's Mac OS X download Web site accidently listed download options for Automator Actions, Dashboard Widgets, and Spotlight Plugins -- technologies that are supported only under Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger."
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How this is a new web site is still a mystery.
Of course I've been reading those feeds since some time in early January.
Originally posted by AppleInsider
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Earlier this month, the company's Mac OS X download Web site accidently listed download options for ...
Uh well, for a brief moment i was convinced, but
actually -
- i don't believe "accidently", not if "Apple" is involved.
Tight liped as they are.
It is marketing - shall i say "appleing" - at full blast.
Originally posted by Nebagakid
that website has been there a long time. Nice reporting and
Yes but has it been highlighted on the top of the support page like it is now?
But in my mind...soooo thats important why?
Originally posted by Louzer
Any idea how to get these feeds to work in Firefox? I guess this is what I should expect from a browser that started out as 'just a browser' and is starting to get the feature creep (hey, let's add a RSS news feed, but make it wacky by hooking it into bookmarks in a weird way!")
Hi,
ok, after some a rangling, I think I've figured out why there is no link icon for apple.com's rss feeds in FF, and how to add them manually.
1. it looks like the feeds at apple.com/rss do not show up as an icon in FF because apple leaves tags like this out of the <head>:
<link rel="alternate" title="AppleInsider RSS" href="//www.appleinsider.com/appleinsider.rss" type="application/rss+xml">
2. To add feeds manually in FF, I 'bookmarked' an RSS feed that had an icon on the bottom. I then went in the bookmarks and replaced the info for the feed location and title with that of Apple's. viola. live feed works!
I figure FF has an 'add RS Feed manually function', but i can't seem to find how to do it..