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Re: [syndication] RSS aggregators for non-technical folk
Doug Ransom <doug.ransom@alumni.uvic.ca> wrote:
I tried NewsGator today just long enough to see if it worked. It did
and its pretty easy to use on the surface. I think combing the mail
reader and RSS reader with outlook (or mozilla or any other mail client
for that matter) is a valid approach. I think I will see if anyone has
an NTTP reader for outlook now too.
Heh. I think MS has one of those. It's called Outlook Express.
A Lazyweb thought. Newsmonster took the complex road to RSS in Mozilla
by building a big Java app. I wonder if there's enough power in
Mozilla's Javascript, XSLT, XUL and other platforms to do it another
way. I suspect it would be possible to build a Mozilla sidebar app that
used an Aggie style datastore and XSLT transforms completely in Mozilla
code. The only thing I can see which might be tricky is arranging for
periodic data collection. The javascript timer functions look like they
could do this, but I can't quite get my head round what page or app
would be refreshed. There are a couple of Mozilla RSS projects which
might be taking this approach but they don't seem to be going anywhere.
One other thing. All the RSS to email approaches so far and quite a lot
of the standalone aggregators use a three pane approach; feed, item,
description. I've decided I really don't like this and prefer a two pane
approach; Feed, item stream. In fact I do almost all my RSS reading in a
single pane where the items of all my feeds are displayed. These are in
reverse time order and inevitably new items from individual feeds get
grouped because I'm fetching feeds sequentially.
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