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Re: [OT] RSS TV Torrents - New App
- Subject: Re: [OT] RSS TV Torrents - New App
- From: "mark_harrison_uk2" <mph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 20:31:45 -0000
--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "JT @ Home" <Jonathan@j...> wrote:
> Whats all this RSS all about then?? I've seen it mentioned a
> few times, but not had the chance to look at it.
RSS is an XML schema intended to provide syndication of news feeds.
This either tells you all you need to know, or is no help whatsoever :-)
An RSS file contains information about the "news channel", and
then
one or more "news items".
The information about the news channel is stuff like copyright terms,
who publishes it, date of publication, etc.
Each story then contains (typically) a title, a summary, and a link to
the full story (normally a link to an HTML page.)
There are a number of things you can do with RSS:
- If you're a web _server_, you can pull in RSS from someone else's
feed, and display headlines as a syndicated feed on your own site.
- If you're a web _browser_, you can use RSS feeds to automatically
populate bookmarks, so that the "Bookmarks" are dynamic in the
user
interface. As far as I know, only Firefox does this, but not sure. [1]
- If you're a rich client, you can pull down multiple RSS feeds
overnight and display them in a desktop GUI. If the RSS feed provider
has used attachments (called enclosures in RSS speak), then some
clients will pull these down as well.
- If you're a very rich client (if you'll pardon the pun), then you
can work out which of those enclosures are MP3 files, and upload them
to something like a docked iPod, so the user's newsfeed is available
to _listen_ to rather than read in the morning. This is called
"Podcasting", and is one of the "next big thngs" for
rich internet.
[1] There an HTML <HEAD> thing that Firefox supports that you stick
into your Site home page which tells Firefox where to get the RSS feed
from. Firefox then displays an icon in the bottom right so the user
can, if they want, "subscribe" to the feed.
One of my sites - www.yourpropertyexpert.com - publishes an RSS feed
with Firefox support. It seems to work well from a user experience
perspective.
Regards,
Mark
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