Re: [syndication] advice for syndication novice

["Bill Kearney" <ml_yahoo@ideaspace.net>]

> > and b)output these feeds to an HTML page (my personal site).
>
> This depends on what you have available on the server for scripting.
> I use PHP, and I've found the magpie classes exceptionally useful. Each
> scripting language has a decent collection of on-the-fly RSS->HTML
> conversion scripts.
> If you are out of luck in terms of server side scripting, then that leaves:
> Javascript - unfortunately then it only works when your visitor has
> javascript enabled.

Client-side scripting of RSS is a BAD IDEA, try to avoid using it, ever.

The reason is most client-side scripting will download the feed OVER and OVER
for each page view.  This puts an unwelcome load on the site serving the RSS.

Better to pull it onto your own server, cache it, convert it into whatever your
local site uses and display it from there.  Most portals that support RSS do
this.

-Bill Kearney