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July 31, 2003

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Build Form added to RSS to Javascript

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 ;-)

blogged July 31, 2003 10:29 AM :: category [ rss ]

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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

Commented by: David Carter-Tod on August 4, 2003 06:35 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)."

Commented by: Alan on August 4, 2003 07:19 AM

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