Major Feed2JS Changes / Roadmap
March 31, 2006
The first week of April 2006 brings a number of changes in Feed2JS, all to make it bigger and better. First of all, anyone using the primary "jade" server at Maricopa, this server will be going offline for a few hours starrting 8:00am Tuesday, April 4 (MST), as the server will be moving from my office up to the main server room in our bulding. In the long run, this will increase the speed and uptime of our server.
Also, due are some new code changes in the Feed2Js script. The first is to fix an issue in the generated content for the way CSS classes are declared (my mistake, we use invalid "_" characters). When this change happens, it only affects your site if you are using your own style sheets to control the display of the feeds. You will have to edit your CSS style sheets to replace all "_" with "-". I am sorry but after lots of experiments could not find anyway to preserve things for exisiting sites.
For the near future, I am hoping to move the primary site and location of the download to an open source site- a place holder has been set up. In addition, the set up of new mirror sites will/should be more self service than it is now.
Also on the roadmap to be added is support for RSS enclosures to handle podcast content. This requires some modifications of the MagpieRSS code which still lacks this as a built-in support.
Finally, I should let it be known that as of April 7, I am leaving my position with the Maricopa system fot a new role with the New Media Constortium. This "jade" server will not disappear in the near future and hopefully in the long term, and I will still have involvement in the Feed2JS code (it is my baby after all), but am hopeful with the code in an open source site, that others can contribute to its devlopment and evolution.
Lots of changes coming very quickly.
Yay! I can finally see it in action.... :P
Woohoo! Also April Fools Month Rocks!!!!
Thanks a lot Alan!
Is this the reason for the text at the bottom of the feed "note for Feed2JS users"? Is there a date for removing this?
Sorry Melody, that should not have been there (test code) It is now removed.
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Hi,
Firstly, thanks for the Feed2JS program: very useful. I have run into a problem running a couple of feeds through it, but as they also produce problems with similar RSS to JS scripts, it may be an issue with the feeds themselves (although they do work with an RSS to HTML implementation). One of the feeds in question is this one: http://rss.hsyndicate.com/feeds/allnews.xml
It seems to validate fine but won't work in Feed2JS. Any ideas?
Finally, best of luck with the bew position!
All the best,
Richard
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Yay! I can finally see it in action.... :P
Woohoo! Also April Fools Month Rocks!!!!
Thanks a lot Alan!
Posted by Dan at April 3, 2006 12:53 PM