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publicbroadcasting on "Strangest Thing - Not displaying"

publicbroadcasting — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:47:36 +0000

Odd...apparently it does kindof work - but only in older versions of Internet Explorer.

publicbroadcasting on "Strangest Thing - Not displaying"

publicbroadcasting — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:15:15 +0000

I don't have 'live items' checked - I don't have Yahoo or Google feeds included, but it has happened again. What's more - while the feedburner feeds included do validate the Feed Digest RSS feed does not.

capitolfax on "Strangest Thing - Not displaying"

capitolfax — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:36:04 +0000

Peter posted this a while back on Yahoo and Google news searches...

===try putting .nyud.net:8090 after the hostname. For example.. URL as you've got it, but news.search.yahoo.com.nyud.net:8090 instead of just news.search.yahoo.com.===

Also, you probably want to UN-check your "Show Only Live Items" box.

publicbroadcasting on "Strangest Thing - Not displaying"

publicbroadcasting — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:28:20 +0000

Ok, the problem is back - this time nothing changed

Yesterday, worked fine

Today, without adding anything it stopped working

I'm adding a post now and I'm going to try to find a workaround, but it is a Feeddigest problem

publicbroadcasting on "Strangest Thing - Not displaying"

publicbroadcasting — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:26:47 +0000

Ok, the problem is back - this time nothing changed

Yesterday, worked fine

Today, without adding anything it stopped working

I'm adding a post now and I'm going to try to find a workaround, but it is a Feeddigest problem

peter on "Strangest Thing - Not displaying"

peter — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:33:38 +0000

Perhaps someone is reading, or it's just luck..!

publicbroadcasting on "Strangest Thing - Not displaying"

publicbroadcasting — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:03:25 +0000

And then..just like that it's back

publicbroadcasting on "Strangest Thing - Not displaying"

publicbroadcasting — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:59:31 +0000

That just makes it curiouser - first because the character that feedvalidator is saying is invalid is the letter "n" second because the text that goes along with the post should have little/nothing to do with Javascript displaying it third because another digest that contains the same feed is also not valid but in this case it says the problem is this: height="1" (also in the description) - fourth because it says the feed that is apparently causing the problem is valid
http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=publicbroadcasting.ca%2Fatom.xml - but apparently that feed when entered into feeddigest becomes invalid http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapp.feeddigest.com%2Fdigest3%2FOG5LJ7PMO4.rss

Um...huh?

peter on "Strangest Thing - Not displaying"

peter — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:11:31 +0000

This isn't an official answer, but looking at the JavaScript now, I see one invalid character straight away, even from my browser. Feed Digest is, for better or worse, quite an adherent to a "garbage in, garbage out" philosophy, which is why the emphasis on valid feeds is so strong.

Note that the RSS version no longer validates:

http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapp.feeddigest.com%2Fdigest3%2FUIQBSIKMWY.rss

publicbroadcasting on "Strangest Thing - Not displaying"

publicbroadcasting — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:35:23 +0000

Still not working 1 week plus now

publicbroadcasting on "Strangest Thing - Not displaying"

publicbroadcasting — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:55:08 +0000

That post is out of the feed but it's still not displaying. Any other ideas?

peter on "Strangest Thing - Not displaying"

peter — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:35:51 +0000

Feed Digest doesn't update posts once they've entered the system for the first time. However, I notice that item is now the last one in the digest so it should get knocked off the bottom as soon as a new post enters.

publicbroadcasting on "Strangest Thing - Not displaying"

publicbroadcasting — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:14:08 +0000

Ok, I re-edited that post, the only characters in that area now are spaces but it's still not showing up and firefox says

Error: unterminated string literal
Source File: http://app.feeddigest.com/digest3/UIQBSIKMWY.js
Line: 1, Column: 17
Source Code:
var digesttext = "<style type=\"text/css\">P.item { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-family: \"Trebuchet MS\", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #B40404; line-height: 1.45em }a { color: #04E; }#

publicbroadcasting on "Strangest Thing - Not displaying"

publicbroadcasting — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:48:00 +0000

Hmm...odd I'll see what I can do

peter on "Strangest Thing - Not displaying"

peter — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:46:53 +0000

Not a solution as such, but there's an invalid character coming through from one of the feeds. It's in this section:

"Via Spacelab : Most Serene Republic Tour Dates The Most Serene Republic Tour Datesâ¨ 02-22 - Ottawa, ON - Zaphod Beeblebroxâ¨ 02-23 - Montreal, QC - Club Lambi â¨02-26 - Barrie, ON - The Foundation Night Clubâ¨ 02-27 - Waterloo, ON - Th.."

The character just before "02-22 - Ottawa" is an invalid invisible character. That's what my JavaScript debugger is telling me. It's basically a corrupt / incorrect post messing things up.

publicbroadcasting on "Strangest Thing - Not displaying"

publicbroadcasting — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:35:43 +0000

Still not working, still don't know why. Does this help at all?

publicbroadcasting on "Strangest Thing - Not displaying"

publicbroadcasting — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:12:14 +0000

I'm using %DESCRIPTIONPLAIN% - there is only one digest where I'm using %DESCRIPTION% and that one seems to be working fine. = \

admin on "Strangest Thing - Not displaying"

admin — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 15:13:39 +0000

Are you using %DESCRIPTIONPLAIN% or %DESCRIPTION% in the template? If you use the former, in theory this "bad stuff" should be stripped out before it hits the digest.

publicbroadcasting on "Strangest Thing - Not displaying"

publicbroadcasting — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:31:14 +0000

Let me know if you come up with anything, I'm still getting nowhere.

peter on "Strangest Thing - Not displaying"

peter — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:18:05 +0000

Not sure, but if you go to http://app.feeddigest.com/digest3/UIQBSIKMWY.js in a regular browser directly, it all comes up with the code.. so it's /got/ to be a conflict somewhere, though quite where I don't know. Might have to try the JavaScript debugger in Firefox!