You might have a problem loading live bookmarks in Firefox from time to time. Turns out that there are some problems in Firefox’s ability to handle entities in the RSS feed. Since I’m not sure what they are exactly, I’ll put them on the extended part of this post to avoid having the bug triggered while I describe the bug.
Bug 263150 describes a related problem, about 1/2 way down the page there is the “XML Parsing Error : undefined entity” message, which is exactly what I was seeing in Firefox when I was spelling Let.Gen. Roméo Dallaire’s name properly in the title of my post about his book.
Sadly the bug is currently in status “NEW” and marked major. I tend to agree. I’ll update this post once / if I see progress on the issue. Until then, in deference to my friends using Firefox, I’ll refrain from using characters outside US-ASCII in the RSS feed as best I can. *sigh* I guess the whole world is just Anglophone.
*Update*: Turns out that if I turn off the entity encoding feature of MarsEdit I don’t trigger this particular problem, we’ll see what other interactions changing this feature happens. I suspect it will only be for older browsers.
1 comment
Adam Roach says:
2005.01.27 at 00:42 (UTC -7 )
For the record, I actually use Thunderbird to read my RSS feeds, but it will have exactly the same bugs as Firefox.