sleepingbeauty
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Posted 1 year ago #
I have added AddToAny widget on my sidebar here: http://www.forallyourmortgageneeds.com/wordpress/ and it works great except that when you click on the Menu header for AddToAny (it is the RSS icon with the text "Subscribe") I get the feed file in the current window.
I am a little unsure why the feed file would be displayed. It is confusing. Is there any way that I can remove the link and just have a text header? Or is there a way that a right click can copy the link and a left click do nothing. Or something.
Connie
Hi Connie,
Opening the raw and/or formatted feed is actually the intended usage for the feed icon: http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/feed-icon-guidelines/
People acquainted with RSS will expect the icon to be a direct link to the feed, and most geeks will actually throw a fit if the icon is not a direct link. :)
All browsers render an RSS feed at least a little differently. Some users even have a feed reader application configured to launch when they click on a feed in their browser. Google Chrome, unfortunately, is the only modern browser right now that displays the ugly raw feed instead of a user-friendly, nice-formatted version of the feed.
Mainly, people are looking to copy the URL of your feed and paste it into their feed application.
sleepingbeauty
Member
Posted 1 year ago #
Not a lot of geeks going to our site, except my husband and I. Any way to put the rss feed in with the other icons and take it out of the menu?
BTW, yep, looks better in FF instead of chrome. But still don't want the menu item to be a link, and if it's got to be a link, not in the same window.
Connie
