Re: [syndication] RSS Clients

[Mike Krus <mkrus@newsisfree.com>]

Morbus Iff wrote:

> Perhaps, instead, someone should just create a javascript that can actually 
> parse an RSS file? Remove the aggregator, and place the processing on the 
> client (browser) end... I know someone wrote a js to do Minimal XML in 50 
> lines - decent enough to throw into a .js file and include in a page. One 
> entirely focused on RSS would be smaller, I'm sure.
here's a great site which produces very customizable javascript:

http://piefke.helma.at/rss/
Check it out, it's really cool.

The problem with this type of service is that end users are eating up
bandwidth twice: once to get the javascript rendering, once for the
site providing that javascript to get the original RSS. Not very
optimal. Especially if no cache is used anywhere...

For the record: exports in NewsIsFree is based on templates so it is
very easy to create new types of exports... Talk to me if you are
interested  (looks like we might have VoiceXML soon!!)


Mike