Elwood P Dowd's Journal: I want feeds to always show pictures.

This is along the same lines as I want favicons everywhere.

If an item in an RSS or atom feed contains a picture, and your feed reader doesn't display it to me in whatever size fits its GUI, your feed reader sucks. Sucks!

For example, Google's new blog search does not show picture thumbnails. That's dumb. Dumb!

Also for example, syndication in WordPress is lame. Lame!

what do you use that *shows* images?

[ediron2]

what do you use that *shows* images? Am just an amateur in RSS feed use, I guess.

Re:what do you use that *shows* images?

[Elwood P Dowd]

Anything that shows the whole post in HTML. LJ syndication and most feed readers. There's a wordpress plugin that will make full posts containing all the HTML in the feed, and thus works for photoblogs. Basically, a lot of web syndication turns a photoblog into a list of dumb titles, when really it should turn a photoblog into a series of thumbnails with no text. If it can't tell automatically, then it should allow manual configuration. Wordpress sidebar and personalized Google and Google Blog search should

Re:what do you use that *shows* images?

[civilizedINTENSITY]

You seem quite upset. I think it wouldn't hurt to show a thumbnail, but I'd want to be able to configure it to replace all graphics with a text string, too. Seems like both modes have use. If I had to choose between only with graphics or only with text (for newsfeeds) I'm not sure which way I'd go...

Re:what do you use that *shows* images?

[Elwood P Dowd]

Nah, I'm just a whiner.

You're right about the only text alternative. [alt text] instead of blank space could be great. But I've never seen an image in a feed where it pained me.