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Re: Tom Biro wonders when RSS is really gonna get simple?

razorshine — Sat, 24 Dec 2005 12:09:56 -0000

am i right in thinking you mean UEFA not EUFA? (union of european football associations)

will microsoft's rss implementation in vista allow us to sync with bloglines/newsgator etc? when is there goign to be rss inside the new windows live mail?

questions questions.. :)

Re: Tom Biro wonders when RSS is really gonna get simple?

what — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 21:10:52 -0000

Suggestions usually suck.

Re: Tom Biro wonders when RSS is really gonna get simple?

Richard Tallent — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 18:34:02 -0000

Personally, I'd like to see a big floating RSS icon "flash" in the upper/right corner of the browser window when a feed is available. Something akin to the icon you see in Remote Desktop when the connection goes sour. Something the average can't miss (vs. the tiny icon in the FF address window).

But here's a simpler question: when will either MS or the FF team release some common icons in PNG format for us web developers?

I've found 16x16 icons everywhere, and one of my readers found a 32x32 the other day, but if we're all going to be on the same page, we should have some common icon files we can all use at a variety of sizes (16, 24, 32, 48, 64, and 128), and, preferably, in SVG as well.

Having these will make it easier to integrate RSS in a meaningful way into our sites for the RSS-uninitiated user. Consistency and recognizability are key.

Re: Tom Biro wonders when RSS is really gonna get simple?

Tom Biro — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 21:28:07 -0000

One thing of note that I thought was cool were the "reports" that you can look in the latest few version of FeedDemon, which show you how often you use (or don't use) feeds. I presume something like that could be translated into an "auto disconnect" of some sort.

Re: Tom Biro wonders when RSS is really gonna get simple?

J Wynia — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 20:01:33 -0000

I keep wondering why aggregators aren't keeping track of update intervals and adjusting their polling intervals accordingly. If on every polling cycle, a feed is updated, keep hitting it every cycle. But, if it hasn't changed in 50 cycles, only check it every 25. If that keeps sliding, and you set a threshold, have it flagged when it hasn't updated in x months. It would be more efficient on bandwidth, would still get updates when they happen, but would automatically figure out what's going on.

Re: Tom Biro wonders when RSS is really gonna get simple?

Ray CHOW — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 19:29:35 -0000

... there is an univers between you dealing with ten hundred feeds for Mister Bill and the average user who might need to get the RSS stuff into a viewer for job alerts in one***simpleclick. I thought there were much more urgent needs to fill in on this (customer) balance side ...