how to use rss feed in social block

[durangodave]

what address do i need to put in the rss feed input for the social block if i put

 

https://mysite.com/modules/feeder/rss.php  and click on the rss social icon, it shows the raw xml output..

 

please advise.. thanks

 

actually it works with IE and shows the rss feed, but on chrome and FF it shows the raw xml output... why...

 

thanks

Edited February 20, 2015 by durangodave (see edit history)

[durangodave]

so to update this, for chrome you just need to install the chrome rss extension since it does not come with a default rss reader like IE does.  However firefox is different, i tried 3 different rss addons for firefox and nothing, still shows raw xml code.

 

Now i did find this article here

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1624614/rss-file-not-rendering-as-expected-in-firefox

 

which is the same message i am getting regarding the style info.

 

In that article you will see this quote

 

 

Well, RSS is just a schema for the encoding of syndicatable information - it doesn't give any display semantics at all. The reason it seems to work is that IE has a builtin transform to HTML for RSS feeds (as does Safari), so they convert the RSS into something more human friendly. Firefox, by default does not.

You can fix this by providing your own XSLT file that gives a specific RSS->XHTML transformation, so that all browsers will display the same result.

 

So what do i need to do with FF to get the rss feed to show?

 

 

here is a good article how to..  http://www.evagoras.com/2011/02/10/improving-an-xml-feed-display-through-css-and-xslt/

Edited February 20, 2015 by durangodave (see edit history)