Feed2JS Updated And Mirrors

April 06, 2006

There is no time better than what is left. With only 1.5 days left before I leave Maricopa, I plundered ahead and updated the source code and site for Feed2JS. The big difference again is if you have created your own style sheets to display generated content. You must edit all CSS classes that have names like .rss_XXXXX to read .rss-XXXXX which will make it compatible with CSS standards.

In addition, we have turned off the forms that allowed people to share their own CSS styles. The management of them was way to tedious, and there is no one here who will be able ti monitor them. I winnowed down the example list to 100 different styles. This does not mean you cannot use our Style Sheet tool to create your own individual styles for your pages; it just means you cannot upload new ones to our collection.

We've added a bit of explanation of how the UTF-8 option can deal with strange characters in the displayed feed content.

Finally, the Build a Feed Form will now generate cut and paste code that is valid XHTML.

Also, I have manually updated the remaining mirror sites with this version of the code (I lost about 4 since my ftp access was denied).

Remaining to be done is support for RSS enclosures, moving this information site to an Open Source Forge site, and setting up a better system for mirror sites to set themselves up and register.

Happy Feeding, this might be my last update... Alan Levine

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