Build Form added to RSS to Javascript
Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this July 31st, 2003 10:29 am
I just added a small feature to our RSS to JS demo, the site that demonstrates a bone-simple (even humans can do this with their bare hands) way to take a known RSS feed and have it displayed inside any web page.
This new feature is a simple web form that allows you to enter the URL for any RSS feed, select the various options our demo script provides, and voila! magic- it can do a preview version of the output and… (but wait, if you order before midnight tonight, you get a bonus feature!) it will spit out the snippet of JavaScript you need to paste into your web page.
Here is what the new form looks like:
So here is how it works. Take any old RSS feed just laying around and paste it into the form. Select the display options that we offer to show/hide channel details, items details, posting date, number of entries…
Then you have two things to play with. The first is a preview of how the feed will appear in your own pages and the other is a page that will generate the HTML code you need to copy/paste to your own pages to bring it on home.
Now that is simple. It might take Stephen only a mouse and half a cup of coffee to work it through 
August 4th, 2003 at 6:35 am
Alan,
I don’t know if you’ve done this or not, but I sprinkle my implementation of the same concept with lots of style ids so that the feed display can be customized for those so inclined.
David
August 4th, 2003 at 7:19 am
It is there although it requires one to write inline, link or download an external style sheet:
http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/feed/rss.css
actually classes since one could have more than one feed per page. I did not want to include it in the JS writing (passing some params to set the formatting).
See http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/feed
where under “making it Pretty: ir reads:
“Insert a link to this external style sheet or put the contents directly into your HTML file, in between <style> … </style> tags. Edit to match your design dreams (need some muscle with CSS, not much to tinker with fonts and colors).”