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Evolution Of RSS
If you are not familiar with RSS, and you work with web content and publishing, you should be. Webreference has an article covering the details and history of RSS. This week's temporary loss of the DTD that Netscape was hosting has pushed RSS from a behind the scenes tool, and into the common pool of buzzwords. While RSS may appear new to some peple it has been around for a couple of years. If you are a user with an account and you personalize your Slashboxes, you are deciding which RSS feeds you would like to display (not all slashboxes are RSS, but most are).
From What I've read at backend.userland.com RSS 0.92 is completely backwards compatible with the now gone 0.91 as all the new features are optional. I see there's also work being started on 0.93. As for RSS 1.0, there's much emphasis on extensibility and creating custom namespaces so we won't have to worry about peoples modules conflicting with eachother,etc. -- From what I can see, RSS 1.0 will still be able to parse the 0.91 RDF's but there doesn't seem to be any clear guarantee of this. Has anyone found clear direction on this?
On a related note, Web Reference really does some fine stuff. Of particular note is the HierMenu script, which uses DHTML to simulate pulldown menus (it works in Netscape v4+, IE v4+, and even Mozilla). It's not Free, but still free. Major websites (such as Merrill Lynch and Trilogy Software) use the script all the time.
Alex Bischoff
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Alex Bischoff
HTML/CSS coder for hire
doh -- my bad. Real link is here (let that be a lesson to me)
This is off-topic, but is there a list of the RDF URL's you use for the Slashboxes available? I really like the little news ticker that comes with KDE and I would like to add some of my slashboxes to it. TIA
--Mark
-- Remember: Wherever you go, there you are!