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Re: Show HN: my personal news reader, now public - SkimFeed.com

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You have a few escaping issues, that Firefox nicely hi-lights if you view the source. For example, if the title of an article contains a ", you don't quote it, so in the html you end up with attributes like this: title="something "something else"" You also don't escape ampersands. Eg: x & y Should be: x & y I imagine there is a more general issue with a lack of escaping, but these are just a couple of examples I…

I saw these issues last night but couldn't work out what was causing them. Thanks for the explanations Mike, added to todo.

Update: Fixed. I think, but those & are still showing up red in source.

Re: Show HN: my personal news reader, now public - SkimFeed.com

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I really like this, it makes skimming the major news sites very easy. It looks like a quick way to view the news in the morning. I could probably scan all those and open the ones I want to read in under a minute. The only thing I would change is the social buttons at the top but from the other comments I can see you're going to remove them.

Nice work.

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