Subject:
|
Re: LUGNET news RSS feed
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.off-topic.geek
|
Date:
|
Thu, 24 Jun 2004 10:40:53 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
1123 times
|
| |
|
|
"Dan Boger" <dan@peeron.com> wrote in message
news:20040623184606.GW22332@peeron.com...
[ ... snipped ... ]
>
> Such customized feeds don't work well as RSS. I can certainly imagine
> some pre-selected filters, and a few seperate feeds - but having a feed
> generated just for a specific user won't work well.
[ ... snipped ... ]
Maybe a few specific feeds can be defined and made available. For the ILTCO
web site I am achieving roughly the same affect as an RSS feed for
lugnet.trains by using PHP's IMAP functions to read the NNTP feed. A trains
specific RSS feed would be of interest.
I also don't understand why IE can't read the LUGNET RSS feed? IE doesn't
have any problems with RSS feeds from PostNuke based sites. All of the
following render fine for me in IE 6.0.
http://www.ncltc.cc/backend.php
http://www.nclug.cc/backend.php
http://www.ldraw.org/backend.php
Why is what you have done for LUGNET different? I may be an RSS neophyte
here but from the little I have read, the RSS XML format is pretty basic and
simple to implement. Doing one for the ILTCO site is on my to-do list.
Since it is unlikely anyone will read an RSS feed with a browser all that
really matters is if web sites which implement standard RSS implementations
(like built into PostNuke) can read the LUGNET feed. I haven't tried it
yet, has anyone else?
Mike
--
Mike Walsh - mike_walsh at mindspring.com
http://www.ncltc.cc - North Carolina LEGO Train Club
http://www.carolinatrainbuilders.com - Carolina Train Builders
http://www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=mpw - CTB/Brick Depot
|
|
Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: LUGNET news RSS feed
|
| (...) It's a funky character issue. When you take the funky characters that are used in Web sites (smart quotes, for instance) dump them as is into an RSS feed, the browser, and often many readers kick back on it. It doesn't look like, at this (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | Re: LUGNET news RSS feed
|
| (...) To do that properly though, I'd have to actually keep a history of every lugnet post - otherwise, if there weren't any train posts in the last 20, the train specific RSS feed would be empty. Not terrible, but not exactly desireable. Not saying (...) (20 years ago, 27-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: LUGNET news RSS feed
|
| (...) Such customized feeds don't work well as RSS. I can certainly imagine some pre-selected filters, and a few seperate feeds - but having a feed generated just for a specific user won't work well. For the Peeron Sidebar though, it would. And it's (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
20 Messages in This Thread:
 
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
