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My Gmail Account Has an Atom Feed
I was looking at the page source on GMail a minute ago and saw a link tag that gave a URL for an Atom feed. Sure enough, go to
https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atomand there’s XML staring you in the face:
<feed version="0.3">
<title>Gmail - Inbox for windley</title>
<tagline>New messages in your Gmail Inbox</tagline>
<fullcount>1</fullcount>
<link rel="alternate"
href="http://mail.google.com/mail" type="text/html"/>
<modified>2005-11-21T03:18:30Z</modified>
<entry>
<title>testing</title>
<summary/>
<link rel="alternate"
href="http://mail.google.com/mail" type="text/html"/>
<modified>2005-11-21T03:18:10Z</modified>
<issued>2005-11-21T03:18:10Z</issued>
<id>tag:gmail.google.com,2004:1187557503841339412</id>
<author>
<name>Phillip J. Windley</name>
<email>me@my.org</email>
</author>
</entry>
</feed>
It’s apparently been there for quite a while. I just never knew about it.
Posted by windley on November 20, 2005 8:18 PM
Comment from Phil Ringnalda at November 20, 2005 9:42 PM
I'm reluctant to ask this, since I fear the answer, but, what browser do you use that didn't tell you about it by properly doing autodiscovery, back a year ago when they first added them?
Comment from Phil Windley at November 21, 2005 6:37 AM
I wondered about that too. I'm using FIrefox on OS X. I just fired up Safari to check and sure enough, it has an RSS badge.
Comment from Phil Ringnalda at November 21, 2005 11:07 PM
That's the answer I feared, alright. I did tighten up Firefox's autodiscovery a little for 1.5, if you are using a release candidate or a nightly trunk build, but I don't think I did anything that would affect GMail, since it's using a straight-up standard link element. And anyway you would have seen it for months before that. Does it work for you everywhere else (that you know of, anyway), and do you have any extensions that might be messing with it (either things that do stuff in the statusbar if you're still using 1.0.x, or for either one things that do stuff with stylesheets, since that's where autodiscovery catches the link tag)?
Comment from Phil Windley at November 22, 2005 10:44 AM
Heh, in fact it is there (I just discovered). But on my Mac, at least, the RSS icon is some greyed-out funky @-sign-on-a-spring thing instead of a colorful RSS badge like I've come to expect. I'm on 1.0.6. So, the message was there, but not in a way that i was paying attention to it.