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After updating to Safari 4, iWeb now has trouble showing the RSS feed widget contents within iWeb. I can't say for sure that Safari 4 is the culprit, but it's the only major change between yesterday and today. Upon publishing the site (to a server), the feeds render properly. This behavior is strange, and I certainly have not seen it before today. A bit more strange is that one of my RSS Feed widgets does work within iWeb, and I seem to be able to add some feeds that show up, and others don't.
Anyone else having problems with the RSS Feed widget in iWeb after installing the release version of Safari 4?

If anyone is poking around with iWeb and has a spare 10 minutes, could you try this out:
1. Open iWeb 09 and create a new page
2. Drag the RSS Feed Widget onto the page
3. Use this as the Subscription URL: feed://images.apple.com/webapps/productivity/recent.rss
4. Observe - does the feed download?
When I do this for any feed with an .rss extension, it hangs on the 'Downloading RSS feed..." message. I have noticed, though, that feeds with an XML extension seem to work fine. Is this some kind of limitation with iWeb?

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