Artcasting feeds, a new use for enclosures

[scripting]

We're starting to work with people on artcasting. The idea is we want to send visual art over RSS 2.0 feeds. Photographs. ChatGPT visualizations. Paintings.

The consensus seems to be that we should use the enclosure element, as with podcasting, in this case, if the type begins with image/ then an artcast viewer should handle it, and a others should ignore it.

We were at this place with podcasting in 2001, and needed some examples, so we used Grateful Dead music to start using the technology. This is a similar idea. There's a big difference between an idea and something you can use.

So anyway, here's a test feed. Try subscribing to it in a feed reader you like. Hopefully it either ignores the enclosure or it does the right thing with it, displays it.

Let us know how it works, below. :smile:

[yudel]

Looks pretty on Feedly!

[scripting]

@yudel -- screen shot??

[yudel]

In my feeds:

When opened as an item:

[scripting]

Wow! Very nice. 😀

[moosebegab]

Here it is in Inoreader.

[scripting]

@moosebegab -- nice!

[davmillar]

Not quite as pretty in NetNewsWire for iOS.

[Crul]

It works on Commafeed:

[jamesburgos]

Same for NNW on mobile.

[pcmhatre]

No images on NNW for Mac:

[sillygwailo]

Here's a screenshot of the test feed in NewsBlur:

[lostfocus]

No image on Reeder on macOS:

[moosebegab]

Black and white and RSS Photos you can only see in a feed site: https://gilest.org/bwrss.html feed: https://gilest.org/bwrss/bwrss.xml

Just throwing this out there that this feed does not work on Feedland. However, it does work on Inoreader.

[scripting]

@moosebegab -- thanks for the report. I really want this feed to work in FeedLand.

There are no rules how this stuff should work, just a consensus. They aren't using the <enclosure> element, instead they're putting an <img> element in the element of each item.

For that to work in FeedLand we would have to allow images in HTML, but we don't we strip all HTML from posts.

Here's what's in the feed --

https://feeder.scripting.com/returnjson?feedurl=https://gilest.org/bwrss/bwrss.xml