Photocast access with other browsers!

Hi All,
According to Apple when you create a Photocast you can veiw with any browser capable of reading RSS on Windows or Mac. Well on my Windows box I have tried Mozilla, Firefox and Exploder, with no luck. I use Firefox with the Wizz RSS extension to read RSS feeds all the time, but all these browsers give me an error:
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We're Sorry
The browser you are using does not support the display of Photocasts.
You can view the photos in this Photocast with Safari RSS (included with Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger or later) or other photo-compatible RSS reader for Mac, Windows, and other operating systems. Copy the link below and bookmark or subscribe to it using your RSS reader so you can return to the photos in the future.
http://web.mac.com/gunnerjoe/iPhoto/danica/index.rss
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So, other than Safari what browser can you use? What have they done to the RSS to make it not display in Firefox?
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Found this on MACOSHINTS:
Subscribe to iPhoto 6 photocasts in Firefox via RSS
Mon, Jan 23 '06 at 06:33AM • from: davemak
You probably know that you can subscribe to an iPhoto 6 photocast even if you don't have iLife '06. If you use any of the more-recent versions of Safari (i.e., with RSS support), the link in the photocast announcement will work fine as is. But other browsers, even those with RSS support like Firefox, are taken to an error page. But fear not. The following procedure will allow Firefox users (even those on Windows, I think) to subscribe to an iPhoto 6 photocast:
1. In Firefox, go to Bookmarks -> Manage Bookmarks..., and then choose File -> New Live Bookmark. ("Live Bookmarks" are Firefox's way of abstracting RSS.)
2. Enter the photocast URL from the announcement, substituting web.mac.com for photocast.mac.com, e.g.:
http://web.mac.com/sjobs/iPhoto/my-...ocast/index.rss
3. The titles of the photocast images will then appear in a submenu, either on your toolbar (if that's where you added the bookmark), or in your bookmarks menu. Selecting the images by title will display those images in the browser.
The key insight here is that photocast.mac.com is not the root of the actual RSS feed of the photocast. Instead, that server redirects Safari and iPhoto to the real RSS feed at web.mac.com. This corresponds to a folder under the top-level Web folder inside your iDisk, which contains the actual images and the index.rss file. Using the URL at web.mac.com allows other browsers that use the RSS standard to subscribe to the photocast.
[robg adds: This was also discussed in this hint about customizing the iPhoto 6 photocasting announcement.]
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The above idea lets you access the image, be it one at a time. Any other ideas how to make this work properly outside Safari?
Any help appreciated!
Thanks,
Joe

I had the same experience when I tried using Firefox. I could create a New Live Bookmark, and after I entered the info, a new folder appeared with an icon of the world. But there was no feed address next to it and when I clicked it, nothing happened.
I did find this helpful article on alternative RSS readers for PC users:
http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/macosxhints/2006/02/photocast/index.php
However, this article recommends going into IPhoto and changing the automated Photocast Announcement. I do NOT recommend this. When I did it, and then reopened IPhoto, the menu option for Photocasting disappeared completely! I recommend taking the suggested announcement text and links to RSS feeders in this article, and making it a signature in your email program. Then when you are announcing your Photocast, you can simply choose that signature, rather than mess around with the inner workings of IPhoto.

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