And by cool, I mean totally sweet
So last night, using my Windows partition since my Linux one is having trouble with the /etc/fstab I ended up corrupting while trying to get lilo to work by editing the files via chroot using a Morphix CD, I got sick of using the stupid Internet Explorer and went to download Firefox.
I've been using Firefox since it was called Firebird, and I've always been pleased with it, though some websites aren't W3C compliant and are geared for IE (which doesn't always render CSS properly etc). Anyway, on to the point of this story: when I went to my blog, I noticed a little icon on the lower right hand side reading "RSS". This was new. I clicked on it, and it gave me a bookmark using an XML RSS feed!
The PR1 of Mozilla Firefox includes a pretty cool feature called "Live Bookmarks". This live bookmark acts like a dynamic folder of content in your bookmarks. When you open it up, it shows you the latest entries in the RSS feed.
This functionality works great with Blogger.com, since each and every blog driven by it has the ability to include an RSS feed.
What I'm interested in doing is seeing if I can't use these RSS feeds in kind of a combobox situation in my sidebar. Like putting someone's blog link there, but when you click on it, it drops down a list of the most recent posts according to their RSS feed.
Btw, if you're unfamiliar with RSS, check out the link to Daily Rotation on my sidebar. This whole site is driven by RSS. As is the meta-news functionality of Gametab.
The other thing I just noticed is the "Fund" functionality implemented in the new release. Rather than opening a popup, it opens a bar docked to the bottom of the window. You type in your string and it will find it for you. What's "totally sweet" about this is that it has a "highlight" feature. Click on this and all occurances of the string on the page will be highlighted. Cool, eh?
I've been using Firefox since it was called Firebird, and I've always been pleased with it, though some websites aren't W3C compliant and are geared for IE (which doesn't always render CSS properly etc). Anyway, on to the point of this story: when I went to my blog, I noticed a little icon on the lower right hand side reading "RSS". This was new. I clicked on it, and it gave me a bookmark using an XML RSS feed!
The PR1 of Mozilla Firefox includes a pretty cool feature called "Live Bookmarks". This live bookmark acts like a dynamic folder of content in your bookmarks. When you open it up, it shows you the latest entries in the RSS feed.
This functionality works great with Blogger.com, since each and every blog driven by it has the ability to include an RSS feed.
What I'm interested in doing is seeing if I can't use these RSS feeds in kind of a combobox situation in my sidebar. Like putting someone's blog link there, but when you click on it, it drops down a list of the most recent posts according to their RSS feed.
Btw, if you're unfamiliar with RSS, check out the link to Daily Rotation on my sidebar. This whole site is driven by RSS. As is the meta-news functionality of Gametab.
The other thing I just noticed is the "Fund" functionality implemented in the new release. Rather than opening a popup, it opens a bar docked to the bottom of the window. You type in your string and it will find it for you. What's "totally sweet" about this is that it has a "highlight" feature. Click on this and all occurances of the string on the page will be highlighted. Cool, eh?
posted by Adam Skinner at 9/17/2004 07:55:00 AM
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