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[rocknnmike]

I don't clain to be to foremost expert in JS. Enough to get me by. But I came across something that I can't figure out. I am trying to putr a simmple RSS feed widget on my site. After I finished it I find that it works great in Internet Explorer 8 but not in FireFox 9.0 When I click on the widget with fireFox The Bookmark save Box drops and give the choice to save it as a bookmark. So simple but what a pain. pls help!! Here is the Code that I use for th entire section.



<!--change social network url and icon here -->
<<ul id="social" >

<li id="rss"><a href="http://www.susangabrielle.com/1/feed" title="RSS" alt="rss"><img src="/files/theme/rss.png"></a></li>
<li id="fb"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/susangabrielle" title="Facebook Us" alt="facebook"><img src="/files/theme/fb.png"></a></li>
<li id="twitter"><a href="http://www.twitter.com/susangabrielle" title="Twitter Us" alt="twitter"><img src="/files/theme/twitter.png"></a></li>

</ul>


The problem one is the 1st one for the RSS feed. I can't figure out why it works ok with IE but Not with FireFox. Thanks for your help

[lespauled]

Is that double left "<<" in the ul line supposed to be there?

If your Firefox is using live bookmarking, that may be the cause. You could post the site, and I can check it on different browsers.

[rocknnmike]

Sure thing. I'm sorry I thought That I did. It's
   Susangabrielle.com     - Welcome

The RSS Feed Widget is located at the lower right of the page. But even with live bookmarks it would still go to the site if it's pointed that way wouldn't it?
Thanks So Much For Responding!!! :confused:

[lespauled]

I tested it in IE, Chrome and Firefox. Firefox, went to the live bookmarks page. So, it seems like its working as it should.

[rocknnmike]

I removed one of them and it didn't seem to make any difference "<"

[lespauled]

One other thing that you might want to fix. When I subscribed to that feed in Firefox, it comes up with 2 preceding spaces:    You might want to remove any spaces from the title.

Other than that, here it seems to be working perfectly. Maybe uninstalling and reinstalling firefox. Maybe you have a plugin that is interfering with it.

[rocknnmike]

Ah ok so If I turn off the live bookmarks it will correctly go to the RSS URL? Most people are like me and won't know about the live bookmarks. When they visit the site they will just assume there is a problem. heh.. my girlfriend (her site) assumes that. Maybe I should put a line close to the Widget about Firfox's live bookmarks tell people that visit the site that very thing.


I really do appreciate your help!!!

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So with you it actually went to the RSS feed when you clicked on it?

[lespauled]

Anytime. Firefox does things a little differently. They try to make things user friendly, but it causes more problems for novice users than it solves.

Good luck!!!!

[rocknnmike]

Yeas thanks for the info about the spaces, I was wondering how to fix that

[lespauled]

Yes, once I added it to google reader, everything was fine (except the spaces).

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This is what the firefox screen looks like when the rss is clicked

[ATTACH=CONFIG]4505[/ATTACH]

[rocknnmike]

The attachment didn't open but no prob. i got hold of Susan and she said it opened ok with her Firefox so Obviously mine's gotta bug. I have looked and can't find the spaces. Are they suppose to be located in the line of code for the RSS or is it in the page header. This is a page template we bought from Weebly.

[lespauled]

Looking at the xml (RSS data), the title looks like this:

<title>

<![CDATA[

   Susangabrielle.com     - Blog

]]>

</title>

So, they are being processed in the RSS file, not on the page. Without the code that produces the RSS, I would be shooting blind.