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Use <media:content> instead of <img> in post body #310

Closed Dovizu closed 3 years ago

Dovizu commented 4 years ago

I use MailChimp to convert my RSS feed into an email campaign, but images embedded in the body of a post don’t work. For example in my feed, an image shows up as <img src="C98B12E5-9C22-48FC-B91B-E7C1F3FF2B3C.jpeg" alt="" />

Pretty standard, but when viewed in MailChimp, it doesn’t quite work.

I contacted Mailchimp customer support and they said that images must use <media:content> tag to show up. Quoting from this support article:

Are images appearing as links? If you are using enclosure tags to display images, you may see a link to where the image is hosted instead. Check with your web administrator to set up your feed to show each item's image using <media:content> RSS tags.

Would it be possible to use <media:content> instead of <img> in the generated XML file?

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pathawks commented 3 years ago

I’m not sure I understand what is being asked here. <media:content> is not a replacement for <img>.

As far as I understand, <img> is not an enclosure, so I don’t understand how the MailChimp advice is relevant here.

Could you maybe provide a bit more detail, maybe with specific examples of current behavior vs expected behavior?

Dovizu commented 3 years ago

Ah, since I filed this bug, I talked more with Mailchimp’s support and have realized that the problem is that Mailchimp does not support relative paths in <img> indicated by xml:base. So I hope Jekyll-feed will allow absolute path generation in the future.

pathawks commented 3 years ago

@Dovizu Thanks for the update! That makes more sense. :+1: