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Posted by finelinebob on May 7, 2004, at 1:32:30
PLease! Dr. Bob! I'm addicted to my news reader! Is there any way your modified WWWBoard could generate RSS feeds? One for each board, just for threads (not for each message ... THAT would be silly)?
That would be so kewl....
Posted by Dr. Bob on May 7, 2004, at 8:23:48
In reply to RSS, anyone?, posted by finelinebob on May 7, 2004, at 1:32:30
> Is there any way your modified WWWBoard could generate RSS feeds?
Can you tell me more about RSS? I've heard of it, but don't really know what would be involved...
Bob
Posted by finelinebob on May 7, 2004, at 12:00:47
In reply to Re: RSS, posted by Dr. Bob on May 7, 2004, at 8:23:48
I'll send you an email ... I need to send you some code samples and the script for this BBS is going to just delete them.
Meanwhile, you can download a free news reader for the Mac at http://homepage.mac.com/stas/slashdock.html . It's a little docklette that's way too addictive -- you have been warned!
cheers,
flb
Posted by noa on May 7, 2004, at 17:39:58
In reply to RSS, anyone?, posted by finelinebob on May 7, 2004, at 1:32:30
Hi, Bob!
Can you explain what the news reader is?
And how are you, BTW!!??
:-)
Posted by finelinebob on May 7, 2004, at 18:07:07
In reply to Re: RSS, anyone? » finelinebob, posted by noa on May 7, 2004, at 17:39:58
Yo Noa! I'll fill you in about me on 2000 once Dr. Bob gets this alias okayed.
First, the short answer: news readers let you read headlines of stories posted to web sites without actually having to visit the site. If you see a headline you want to read more about, clicking on the headline in the news reader opens up the full article (in a web browser or in the reader, if it can display web pages).
News readers -- the new generation of them that is, for those who remember Usenet -- read special web pages using a language called RSS. Web sites can use RSS to post encapsulated versions of their news stories with links to the full articles. Generally, for a web site's RSS feed, it will list the most recent headlines posted on the site, with that headline linked to the full story. Some news readers also display a short description if the RSS feed includes one.
Wired online's RSS feed can be found at http://www.wired.com/news_drop/netcenter/netcenter.rdf . It's not much to look at in a regular web browser, but you can see the sort of info included. If you check out a site and they mention they have an XML feed or you see a little orange [ XML ] button, that's also a news feed.
Can't think of any Windows news readers out there, since I'm a Mac person, but maybe someone else out there has a link. My favorite Mac reader is called SlashDock and can be downloaded at http://homepage.mac.com/stas/slashdock.html . The most popular reader on the Mac side is probably NetNewsWire and you can find it at http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/internet_utilities/netnewswire.html .
Posted by Dr. Bob on May 8, 2004, at 9:52:21
In reply to RSS and news readers..., posted by finelinebob on May 7, 2004, at 18:07:07
> news readers let you read headlines of stories posted to web sites without actually having to visit the site. If you see a headline you want to read more about, clicking on the headline in the news reader opens up the full article (in a web browser or in the reader, if it can display web pages).
Thanks for the intro. How about this?
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/threads.rdf
Bob
Posted by finelinebob on May 8, 2004, at 11:47:48
In reply to Re: RSS for PB, posted by Dr. Bob on May 8, 2004, at 9:52:21
Very cool!
Is that a static page just for a test, or did it get generated by the BB script? ... well, I guess I'll find out in 30 minutes or so.
There were some "Placeholder" items in the list when I viewed it through SlashDock. If you are already generating the RDF page through the script, you might need to add some conditional so that they don't get written if "Placeholder" isn't replaced by a real item. Nonetheless -- very impressive, I must say =^)
Posted by finelinebob on May 8, 2004, at 17:19:12
In reply to Re: RSS for PB » Dr. Bob, posted by finelinebob on May 8, 2004, at 11:47:48
Okay -- it is being dynamically generated, and those placeholders are now filled.
joo @R3 l33t, d00d!
Only suggestions: I don't think the date is necessary, since the new threads will push out the old fairly quickly. You might want to insert something to separate out the thread subject from the author, since it runs together right now ... at least in SlashDock. Maybe something like:
Name of the thread | finelinebob
The pipe | character might be good enough.
Now I've gotta download NetNewWire to see how it looks in a more full-featured new reader. Gonna send you an email with some more links for Windows readers and the standard little graphic people use to announce these feeds.
flb
Posted by Dr. Bob on May 8, 2004, at 18:22:43
In reply to Re: RSS for PB, posted by finelinebob on May 8, 2004, at 17:19:12
> joo @R3 l33t, d00d!
:-)
> I don't think the date is necessary, since the new threads will push out the old fairly quickly.
Maybe not at some of the other boards...
> You might want to insert something to separate out the thread subject from the author, since it runs together right now ...
I know, that's the format that's used here, but there's no formatting in RSS...
> Maybe something like:
>
> Name of the thread | finelinebobOr maybe "by"? :-)
> Now I've gotta download NetNewWire to see how it looks in a more full-featured new reader. Gonna send you an email with some more links for Windows readers and the standard little graphic people use to announce these feeds.
Thanks!
Bob
Posted by finelinebob on May 10, 2004, at 23:53:46
In reply to Re: RSS for PB, posted by Dr. Bob on May 8, 2004, at 18:22:43
You should have a new email, if you're checking here first. Looking very good! Love the double-dash separator.
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