[wp-hackers] feed:http://address problem

[Randy Peterman]

I have reported this into mozilla's bugzilla.  You can track it here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=294715

Regards,

Randy Peterman
Digital Research & Development
www.randypeterman.com
randy at randypeterman.com

Matt Mullenweg wrote:

> Denis de Bernardy wrote:
>
>> In any event, this leads me to suggest that many users click on the 
>> link and
>> copy the resulting url in their address bar, and that standard or 
>> not, feed:
>> should not be implemented in WordPress until IE handles it properly.
>
>
> mailto: isn't handled by default unless there's a mail application 
> installed. Windows just happens to come with a mail application, and 
> in Longhorn it'll come with a feed application just like Tiger does 
> today. It has nothing to do with IE or Firefox, except you pointed out 
> two excellent points that shoudl be filed in Firefox's bugzilla, I'm 
> sure they can fix them by the next release.
>