FeedFriends toolbar left incubator and now available to all users. Now all the links in the feed are converted on the fly to toolbar links (with same base module that absolutizes links and helps to see those images that got corrupted otherwise). What it means is that target page is opened inside a frame and…

I have no idea why feed publishers do not care to return Last-modified header so readers can use conditional GET and 304s instead of full thing over and over again in case when feed contents don’t change. I beleive they just don’t care about RSS traffic money they spend on these absolutely useless data transfers.…

Now links in descriptions are being absolutized relative to original feed URL upon fetching. This is supposed to fix missing images and broken links which are caused by feed item being moved from original feed (preprocessed feed, then friends feed and so on). I wrote perl class that allows changing all links in HTML code…