Hello.

This is a quick question to any of the visitors from BlogExlosion.If you came across this site from anywhere other than Blog Explosion would you keep visiting? If not, why not?I am just trying to work out if the extra traffic it generates is from people who are interested in the topics I talk about. Or if it the content is not read.If you feel like answering drop me an email (paul.

My First AJAX Application is now up (here).Some thanks must go out to Bill Bercik whos sample AJAX application I looked at and used a smidging of code from (The AJAX object factory).The way to use the application is to as follows: Enter some text into the first page. This text has to be more that a couple of words. Click “Submit”, this will call the yahoo web service and present the user with a list of “potential” tags for technorati.

I am currently working on a little AJAX application. Over the past few weeks, with each blog entry that I have written I have struggled to keep the Technorati Tags, Feedster and MSN search boxes up todate, with the AJAX application I will automatically be able to generate these information boxes with relevant tags and searches.Basically it is a JavaScript only Webservice queryer. The client side parses the results and uses these results as the input for another webservice….

Yes!!!!The previous blog entry was created with “Kinlans Automatic Tag Generator”…. I say Kinlans, I am using Yahoo!’s Web service. (http://developer.yahoo.com).I am pretty darn chuffed! The next entry should include a link to the Ajax app. Trust me, it looks naff but it works for me. I need to do some more experimentation with this stuff, especially the Yahoo searching as well as Technorati Integration. But other than that it is pretty cool.

Just the other day, after I have been posting about how IE7 automatically detects feeds I have found a link (http://blogs.msdn.com/rssteam/archive/2005/08/03/446904.aspx) by the Longhorn RSS team at Microsoft which details some information about how IE7 detects feeds on a page.Currently, beta 1 only supports RSS. Atom support is expected in later Beta’s. For IE7 to detect a feed on your page the page must contain the a snippet of HTML similar to:<link rel=“alternate” type=“application/rss+xml” title=“your feed title here” href=“http://www.

I have updated this entry at (http://www.kinlan.co.uk/2005/08/update-about-ie7-feeds-not-working.html) after to speaking to the RSS Product manager at Microsoft. Seeing as this is my most popular post, I would appreciate it if you take a quick look at the link. Thanks.Original Post This is the blog entry of feeds that don’t work with IE7. That is feeds that don’t display in the IE7 Feed viewer. When I say don’t display, I actually mean that they don’t render in the new format that IE7 supports.

With the introduction of IE7 and the automatic RSS feed detection and the special search tags that I am now including at the footer of each blog entry, I had a thought: Why not include all the feeds specified into an RSS feed that summates the results of all the tags. This feed would be viewable by your favorite browser or feed reader. It would get the results of each RSS feed and genereate a new RSS feed, and the best bit was that it shouldn’t requrie any special server or program; Just the browser/feedreader that the user used.

I was pretty sure that there are some feeds that get found by IE7 yet don’t display correctly if at all in the “Feed View”. If you direct Internet Explorer 7 towards channel9.msdn.com, you should see that it detects a feed is available, now if you try and view the feed all it shows is the XML.Why doesn’t it XSLT the feed correctly. I don’t know? But if you do, let me know.

Doh, “I good test to check out the alpha transparency and I missed it!”.should have been “A good test to check out the alpha transparency and I missed it!” Hehe, oh well :)

I missed out on the last post trying out the alpha transparency. I know its been blogged about here, but I should have really tried it out.Well anyway, here goes!TEST [[posterous-content:jyixBbeegBcvzJqsaxAg]]Here is the original picture Its garish I know, but it highlights the green fade to a white colour on the back ground (html span )of black . Eep, but cool :)

After futher playing with IE7, I have come accross some other annoyances with Tabbed Browsing. Modal Dialog boxes lock the whole of IE7, why can’t they just make the tab that launched the dialog box locked out. Hovering over the tab doesn’t seem to pop a tooltip up, If I have two pages open on the same site, with each site having a long title I can’t really work out which of the two tabs has the content I need.

Something I have just discovered is that you can subscribe any link to your default RSS Aggregator. Obviously, if it is not an RSS feed it means nothing.You right click on the link and then click the ‘Subscribe in default RSS reader’. Not sure if it is on by default or if it is an RSS Bandit thing. I suspect it is an IE 7 feature.

After even more playing with IE7 Beta 1, I have some more annoyances I would like to get in the open.These are mainly to do with the RSS support in IE7 Beta 1. They are nothing major, but I would like to know why you can’t right-click add to favorites straight from the feeds toolbar button. If I am on a page looking at the HTML blog, I already know it is worth adding to my favorites, so can I please quickly add it to my favorites rather than going to feed and then adding it from there.

I have been playing with IE7, I quite like it. Not played around with it too much. I had to make sure that my site worked with it :) And it does, however I did notice that my feed is not discovered automatically. Maybe because it is an ATOM feed, but I don’t know. I also noticed that IE7 doesn’t seem to be completly consistant with how it discovers feeds on a page.

Okay, here we go. I have added some new styles for comment tagging.Just hope they look okay.

I am pretty chuffed I have had a comment from one more person that I don’t know :) Yay. Normally it is just my colleagues or friends who post. This one I think was from Scott Rafer from Feedster.Anyway to respond to the comment. Currently I kind of like the Topic search. I am yet to experiment with keyword search of blog content (although I do link to MSN Search).I chose topic searches because I think that way I might be able to provide people with a more general list of related links on the complete topic as a whole and not just any blog that contains the word/words that I choose to search for.

Now I am certain it was a joke! MattWar made a comment on his blog post and one of his XML Generics examples’ implies that a generic can be defined from an XML Schema.If it is not a joke, I don’t really see the point. The type is an XML schema that has to be defined in the code. Why not just create a class? If the type was based off an XML schema that could be streamed into then that might be interesting.

I am trying to get the readership of this blog up. Currently it is about 1 :). Anyway, I thought that it might be wort including some more links in each of my blog posts.At the end of every article I am going to put a link to a Technorati Tag RSS feed relating to the post. Hopefully you will be able to see in a feed browser other people who are interested in the same things I am talking about.

Turns out it was an amazingly serious blog post. :)

I was just reading MattWar’s web log (The Wayward Weblog) about Generics in C#3.0. The article mentions that furure generics might be also tied to XML Types.I am not too sure I understand the concept. Well not at least the way it was described. To Quote:“On the surface, the two might seem to have nothing to do with each other, but if you dig deeper you soon realize that the two are fundamentally linked, the two concepts not separate but actually compliments of one