Two days ago, Matt Griffith has come up with the smart idea of using the HTML link element to point to a site's RSS feed from the site itself - thus allowing automatic discovery of RSS feeds.

By adding a line like this: <link rel="alternate" type="text/xml" title="XML" href="yoursite.antville.org" /> a site would be providing metadata as to the location of its feed - and this would allow newsreaders, browsers and search engines to automatically locate the feed. ...o'reilly network

indeed. of course we'll support it (pretty much a no-brainer). thanks for the link.

and will be in the default skins starting with the next update of antville.org.

In the meantime, feel free to set this manually in your weblog (most people aren't using the standard weblog page skin anyway, so the update won't have any effect on them ;-)

they agreed to change/expand the link tag to something like this a day later

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="yoursite.antville.org">

for a detailed description and explanation see mark pilgrim