Freedom New Zealand

The RSS & ATOM functions are all working now, for various versions like RSS 1.0 and RSS 2.0, ATOM etc.

Internet Explorer (tested on IE Version 7) is working fine for ATOM and RSS where you can choose either or; in the little arrow besides the RSS Icon giving you the option.
But Firefox displays the older posts first for our site, but noticed not for others.

Found a good article here explaining the concept of 'Live Bookmarks' built into Firefox, which actually makes it not truely an RSS compatible browser, much what we thought it was back when we had to use that as the web browser for support of RSS as IE6 sucked.

If you use Google reader (need a google account) you can sort it by oldest, which literally infact does the opposite, but oh well we tested it and it works fine.

So we found a way around for Firefox to display the newer posts first and not use 'Live Bookmarks' or another website like Google Reader.
An add-on for Firefox called Sage is perfect, found at http://sage.mozdev.org/install/

It should add a Sage button once installed, this is beside the icons on the tool-bar which Home, Back, Forward etc. The rest is simply done by adding it to Sage via click the Sage button while on the main page, do not use the method you normally would for Firefox live bookmarks, re click the RSS looking Icons embedded on the site.

It displays with Sage ATOM 1.0 fine, the posts are in newest order first and also a cool feature of 'read' or 'unread' like you have in an email application. We are actually using Sage ourselves now it's that great.

Hopefully Firefox 3 once out of Beta, fixes the issue of Live Bookmarks.


If anyone has problems with any of this please leave a comment in this post and we will try to help where we can.


- Site Admin Team