I've been a fan of RSS for quite a while, however I could never find a service that allowed you to share calendar feeds with your family or friends. So I built...
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... rss/channel/lastBuildDate has a time in the user's timezone, but says it's in GMT. I don't have Outlook, so I can't nitpick how importing works, but I'm a...
Phil , Thank you for the suggestions. Last Build Date is generated dynamically off the webserver date and then converted to GMT using another function. However...
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... I might not have explained that problem well enough: the other function isn't working. It's 20:18 Pacific right now, and I'm looking at a feed that says...
Phil - I gotcha now. I just changed the format so it takes local webserver time plus a correction to get a starting GMT - then I use the function to fomart it....
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... I have not scoured the Yahoo! feeds, but the ones I was testing with were the Yahoo! news stories such as: http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/topstories Get out...
Hi all, I'd like to get some feedback from RSS reader developers about the idea of an ID being used to distinguish an installed reader instance. That is,...
A GUID is probably the easiest way of creating a unique ID across all reader instances. It would not require any centralized service to ensure (reasonable)...
Check out http://www.deepwire.com It's a free web-based news aggregator that allows you to monitor stocks, weather, and news. This site was just launched and...
http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html Graham Hi all, I'd like to get some feedback from RSS reader developers about the idea of an ID being used...
http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html Graham Hi all, I'd like to get some feedback from RSS reader developers about the idea of an ID being used...
While it's tangentally related to cookies that's not exactly what I'm after. But, much like the user-agent string, there's a degree of parsing structing ...
... Surprisingly not all tools make them easy to create. At least not genuine DCE/OSF style GUIDs. But that's neither here nor there. ... While I am aware of...
... Reader IDs open up a very broad door for potential privacy violations. Thus, if synchronization is really what you're looking for, then I would strongly...
Bill, ... Do you have an intended platform for the development of this solution? ... Consider it noted. ... track and ... to ... it ... unique ... in a ... ...
Can I be no more clear on this? I'm specifically NOT TALKING ABOUT SOME SORT OF ID INTENDED FOR PUBLISHED USE. ... Let me be clear, again, this is not...
... Not a single platform nor a single programming environment. ... Not exactly, I'm looking at raising a discussion on what the various reader programs could...
... I don't see why we should "give up" just because you're ranting... The point is that we shouldn't be creating standards or even common practices that rely...
... Then we fundamentally disagree and you're more than welcome to think the idea is ridiculous. Point noted and you're welcome to ignore whatever thread...
I'll interject one small point from an aggregator author's POV. If a feed doesn't provide a GUID, then the aggregator creates one (from some combination of...
... I'm expecting that the identification of the feed would be based on it's URL and some assortment of timestamp, hash, etag or whatever. The idea here is to...
Just came across this : Rome is a set of Atom/RSS Java utilities that make it easy to work in Java with most syndication formats. It includes a set of parsers...
I've played around with it a bit; it is very well architechted. The conversion process from WireFeed (some incarnation of RSS or Atom) to a general ...
Assuming you haven't seen this already. http://www.glassdog.com/archives/2004/08/25/whats_wrong_with_feed_readers .html -- Julian Bond Email&MSM: julian.bond...
Someone here recently asked me this: the RSS 2.0 spec allows each item to have a link element and a guid isPermalink item. If a RSS file specifies both, which...
... Here's what we do. If the GUID has isPermaLink set to false, it doesn't appear in the interface. 1) If the item has a GUID, use it for the url for the...
Hello I would much appreciate, if you try out my free win32 aggregator. Please give me feedback about your impression. Thanks for your time. Introduction to...
... Jeremy: I can only tell you what JournURL does. RSS and Atom are normalized internally, and during that process: - atom:id becomes feeditem.id or -...
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