It provides a simple way to embed such RSS boxes in any HTML document via
a generated JavaScript tag.
Simply enter the URL of any compatible RSS feed, modify the layout
settings as you like and push the submit button. When finished, copy the
HTML code into your own web page and voilà!
2008-02-03
Made some more improvements especially regarding the error handling and
output. From now on it should be much clearer what's wrong with a very
RSS Box. Since there's now a lot more of client-side JavaScript code involved
I tested the script in four major browsers that are available to me:
Internt Explorer 7, Firefox 2.0, Opera 9.25 and Safari 3.
2008-02-01
Completely revised server- and client-side code. XML rendering is now done
in the browser which speeds up things and decreases the load on the server.
Furthermore, the list of referrers is now loaded on demand via AJAX and
thus not rendered with every request. Finally, I retouched the setup form
interface and cleaned up both HTML and CSS.
2006-12-20
I am very glad that my old little script is gaining even more attention
after all these years... Thank you very much indeed! Since there
are coming in more and more of the same requests and I am really not able
to handle them (apologies!), here is some advice for everyone:
- Use
cascading style sheets (CSS) to change font sizes (and to generally
define your layout).
- Beware
of opening links in a new window. It's offensive to your readers.
A happy end for 2006!
2006-06-13
Did some minor bug fixing again (amongst others replacing single quotes with
' and not " entities). Furthermore (and finally), I
removed the "RC" (as in "Release Candidate") from the document title...
2006-06-12
Gary informed me that longer feed URLs cause trouble and the feed box will
not be displayed. That's in fact a bug, but unfortunately one that cannot
be fixed so easily. My suggestion is to shorten such URLs at one of the
websites around that provide such a service, e.g.
tinyurl.com.
2006-04-23
Switched the source
repository from CVS to Subversion (SVN).
2006-04-20
Andrew Pam brought up a serious issue that probably might have affected
some more people already: the viewer does not support UTF-8 (or Unicode,
resp.) Unfortunately, this is "built-in" into the underlying scripting
language (aka Rebol). I'm sorry to cancel those tickets... :(
2006-04-13
Fixed a bug reported by Mando Gomez that caused feeds using the <guid>
element being displayed without item links... Don't forget to check out
Mando's excellent website mandolux!
2006-04-12
Obviously Sam Ruby changed his feed format from scriptingNews to Atom; which
renders my example link above pretty useless... So far I don't know about
any other scriptingNews feed, do you?
2006-02-20
I hope nobody minds the little line I added at the bottom of each RSS box...
Of course, it's not totally altruistic, but probably some people will find
it informative. However, if you want to prevent if from being displayed
simply add .rssBoxPromo {display: none;}
to your stylesheet.
2006-01-11
New server, new troubles: I moved the viewer to a newly setup Ubuntu machine.
Of course, I forgot to set some permission flags and owners, thus, preventing
the script from working. However, I think everyhings's fixed and working
again.
2005-11-16
Just testing Google's AdSense for a while. Since this page generates most of
my traffic I wanted to see myself what a banner can do here. Hope you dont't
mind.
2004-12-16
Bugfix: Sometimes the logfile which is used to generate the list of sites
using this script gets corrupted. This affected the whole setup page to
return an error and thus, it needed to be caught. (You will see a "currently
out of order" message then.)
2004-04-26
Last efforts to officially release the
code to the open source
community. There have been some bugs in the (image) rendering framework which
I fixed so far. I now include a dynamically rendered list of sites using
(or pointing to) this script to give some examples for the curious at heart
(me included). Finally, there's a
README
file with a short installation guide to make the script run on your own
server.
2004-01-28
When something goes wrong (most of the time this might be a wrong URL, ie.
a 404 as result) an "error" box will
be displayed to signal the failure. Increased version up to 1.0 and labeled
it as release candidate (RC).
2004-01-26
Retouched the code in a very last effort to make the script running
stand-alone (with Rebol but without PHP, that is). Everything
needed is now in CVS so everybody can download from there. Potentially, a
few minor bug fixes might follow short-term. Uh, and the HTML code is
valid
XHTML 1.0 now.
2003-12-12
The mirror at curry.com is not
working for quite a long time. I tried to contact Adam Curry but so far
without success.
2003-03-30
Moved to new server with new domain forever.p3k.org.
2003-03-25
Updated Rebol to version 2.5.5.
End of Rebol's "DNS zombies" in the process list. Finally.
2002-02-19
Added a very nice quote from
Abbe Normal
on top right of this document
2001-11-17
If you want a more compact view of the RSS box you can get it now using the
corresponding checkbox. If it is enabled the descriptions of each item will
not be displayed – given that the item title is defined (otherwise
there would not be much to see). Additionally, the channel image (if defined)
will not be displayed. Thanks
jsyeo@compuserve.com
for the suggestions!
2001-09-21
Since today the textinput tag is supported. It creates an
appropriate form at the end of the box. Moreover, two bugs were fixed: one
caused unnecessary information in the query string of the generated
JavaScript tag. The other affected the display of the date's time zone.
Time zones now are generally displayed in GMT except where another time
zone acronym is defined.
2001-09-04
Added icons for enclosure and source; added XML button checkbox to enable
output of the quasi-standard orange button linking to the XML source (idea
by adam@curry.com).
2001-09-03
It's now possible to refine the style of the whole box using the newly
implemented css classes rssBoxTitle, rssBoxContent,
rssBoxItemTitle and rssBoxItemContent (idea by
rdavies@orientpacific.com).
2001-08-24
Added a form input for limiting the item display. The number determines how
many items will be shown in the box (seven is the default value). Good for
often updated channels.
2001-08-15
Detected a strange bug that prevented the viewer at
curry.com loading
http://p3k.org/rss.xml while http://www.p3k.org/rss.xml was no problem at
all. Upgrading the Rebol installation to the current version solved the
problem, however the cause remains unclear...
2001-08-08
Fixed a small bug that corrupted channel URLs containing a query (as
reported by kika@sloleht.ee).
Configured server redirect from piefke.helma.at/rss.
2001-08-05
Thanks to Adam Curry,
the viewer is now mirrored at
http://publish.curry.com/rss.
2001-07-30
Added link to source code; added example links for all supported formats.
2001-05-30
Fixed a little bug reported by
fredi@email.ee
that caused diacritic characters to be displayed as entity codes.