[TriLUG] possibly OT - RSS feeds, popular portals, etc.

[David McDowell]

yes, I have validated using http://feedvalidator.org ... :)  thanks
for the heads up, IRC served that one to me on Wed this week.  :) 
Liferea looks pretty neat.  I'm hoping for cross-platform though, b/c
our clients are probably mostly windows users, but I know there are
some Mac and there are a few Linux users out there.

Liferea - Linux
NetNewsWire - OS X
MyYahoo!, MSN - web based, so doesn't matter
Google - hopefully the portal home page they are working on will add
it to the beta soon
Mozilla Thunderbird - Linux, OS X, Win, and probably more
Mozilla Firefox - Linux, OS X, Win, and probably more
ipodder - Linux, OS X, Win, but doesn't fit the mold exactly for the
model I have in mind, but I suppose would still work

thanks, hope to see more possibilities!
David


On 5/26/05, Nathan Conrad <conrad at bungled.net> wrote:
> I suggest that you try validating your feed using "feedvalidator" at
> http://feedvalidator.org/ . It doesn't catch everything, but it
> catches many errors.
> 
> Personally, I like Liferea....
> 
> -Nathan
> 
> On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 04:56:03PM -0400, David McDowell wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > As this isn't directly related to linux, with exception of the fact
> > that my RSS (.xml file) feed is hosted on my web server running
> > linux... this may be OT.
> >
> > We are looking at using RSS as a way to give our customers who take
> > advantage of RSS a simple way of knowing when we update an important
> > form on our website.  I have tested my RSS feed with Mozilla Firefox,
> > Mozilla Thunderbird, ipodder (http://ipodder.sf.net), MyYahoo! and MSN
> > news portals and it works with all of them.  The only thing I noticed
> > is MSN seems to ignore my <pubDate></pubDate> tag in the XML file and
> > claims the item is only as old as when it showed up in the MSN
> > window... anyway, that's besides the point, just FYI.
> >
> > Are there other portals people are using... those 2 web portals are
> > obviously large and popular with people... and I'm talking joe and
> > jane here, not uber geek tools.  Are there any others I should test
> > with?  I will be writing a how-to for the non-savvy who want to try to
> > use this technology to track our forms which will include the most
> > popular methods of receiving RSS feeds.
> >
> > NetNewWire may be another, but I'm not sure if it is cross-platform, etc.
> >
> > thanks,
> > David McD
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