BRISKODA on your desktop.

[ColinD]

Hi all,

Just a quick note to let you know we've updated a feature to provide BRISKODA content via RSS.

Here are some details:

WHAT HAS CHANGED?

Almost every part of the code dealing with the RSS output selection has changed.

* A new option has added been added named "qty" to allow you to specify the number of threads that are to be selected in the feed. This was done to give greater control to those who want to syndicate their feeds or to display the latest headlines on their web site/desktop. The default value of 15 will be used if no value is provided. Example usage:

http://briskoda.net/forums/external.php?type=rss2&qty=20

* A new option has been added named "items" to allow you to specify if the feed should be only of new threads or of any threads that have had recent activity. By default the current version of external.php will only show the last 15 new threads; if somebody replies to an older message then that thread will not be included in the output since the thread creation date is older than the 15 newest threads. Providing a value of "active" to the new "items" option will result in the X number of threads you specify that have either had recent replies or is new thread. In other words, if a thread has any replies then the date of the last reply will be used as part of the selection process but if the thread doesn't have any replies to it yet then the thread creation date will be used as part of the selection process. This was done to allow flexibility in what should be included in the external feed. For example, you might want to see any threads that have had recent activity regardless of how long ago the thread was started but you as a web master might only want to show only new threads on your home page. The default behavior will be to only select new threads if no value is provided. Example usage:

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/external.php?type=rss2&qty=20&items=active

* The feed type previously called "rss2" has been relabeled as "rss1" and changed to be compliant with the RSS 1.0 specifications. This was done because even though the output was identifying it as "RSS 2.0" it was really RSS 1.0 elements being shown. The RSS 1.0 specifications (aka: "RDF") use the Dublin Core element tags. Example usage:

	 http://www.briskoda.net/forums/external.php?type=rss1

* The feed type "rss2" has been completely redone to be compliant with the RSS 2.0 specifications. Several new elements are now included.

* The default RSS feed type of "rss" has been changed from version 0.91 to the RSS 0.92 specifications. This was done because version 0.91 has a limitation on the number of items that can be included as well has having limitation on the length of several of the values such as the description field. Version 0.92 did away with both limitations. New element tags were introduced with 0.92 and several of them (language, docs, & category) are now included.

* All dates in the RSS feeds have been changed to be RFC-822 compliant.

* The RSS descriptions elements have been changed to remove the "

[mannyo]

Cool, now I can setup gbpvr so I can see briskoda on the 32" telly.

[ncarring]

Now do you wanna tell us what the heck RSS is ??? :confused:

(sits back and waits for anti-Msoft inferno...)

[mannyo]

I am not sure what it stands for, but it basically gives you a way to read the content using something other than a web browser, you can use the browsers mentioned by Colin. The pages are downloaded in XML format.

[ColinD]

Sorry...

RSS...http://www.webreference.com/authoring/languages/xml/rss/intro/

[ncarring]

... other than a web browser, you can use the browsers mentioned ...

Which, as their description suggests, are indeed browsers. What other tools might one use?

[ncarring]

Sorry...

RSS...http://www.webreference.com/authoring/languages/xml/rss/intro/

I was reading this as we spoke, but I'm still not clear how I would make use of this "feed" ....?

[ColinD]

Sorry...

RSS...http://www.webreference.com/authoring/languages/xml/rss/intro/

Screen Shots for Opera and PerfectXML; looks almost work like

[ColinD]

Also http://www.desktopsidebar.com/

[boyced]

I use Firefox, should the RSS logo be showing like it does for the BBC website?

[Pythix]

Anyone use desktop sidebar and care to share how to incorporate the feeds???

TIA

[ColinD]

Download desktop sidebar.

Once installed and running right click on newsroom heading > panel properties.

In the channels tab, click Add...

Past the following url: http://www.briskoda.net/forums/external.php?type=rss2&qty=20&items=active&postlen=full&bbcode=yes

You can drag the feed to the top if you wish. Clicking edit, will take the url above and give you various options.

Hope that helps, sorry it took a while to reply, just come back to this thread for other reasons