1. RSS
One more use for RSS:
I added EUforum to my customizable "My Yahoo" news page.
Yahoo lets you add any RSS feed.
It didn't show up immediately, but it's there now.
Maybe they needed to see a new message posted.
Regards,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
2. Re: RSS
Robert Craig wrote:
>
> One more use for RSS:
>
> I added EUforum to my customizable "My Yahoo" news page.
> Yahoo lets you add any RSS feed.
>
> It didn't show up immediately, but it's there now.
> Maybe they needed to see a new message posted.
>
> Regards,
> Rob Craig
> Rapid Deployment Software
> <a href="http://www.RapidEuphoria.com">http://www.RapidEuphoria.com</a>
>
Cool Rob, did you get that idea from my Yahoo Euphoria group?
May I suggest you add an RSS icon somewhere on the EUforum search page, with the
link to the feed binded to the icon. People then can use their atom/rss feed
aggregators to read the contents.
You wont have any trouble finding tiny RSS/XML gif icons:
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&imgsz=icon&q=rss&btnG=Search
Regards,
Vincent
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3. Re: RSS
Vincent wrote:
> Robert Craig wrote:
> >
> > One more use for RSS:
> >
> > I added EUforum to my customizable "My Yahoo" news page.
> > Yahoo lets you add any RSS feed.
> >
> > It didn't show up immediately, but it's there now.
> > Maybe they needed to see a new message posted.
>
> Cool Rob, did you get that idea from my Yahoo Euphoria group?
No, I've had the "My Yahoo" news page for a long time.
I've added other RSS sources to it in the past.
Yesterday I managed to set it up, although it didn't appear
on my page for several hours. Since a couple of people
said it didn't work for them, I deleted it, and tried
again today. Now I get that message about the file
not existing, even though it obviously does. Strangely,
the "preview" works fine, just like the others witnessed.
> May I suggest you add an RSS icon somewhere on the EUforum search page, with
> the link
> to the feed binded to the icon. People then can use their atom/rss feed
> aggregators
> to read the contents.
>
> You wont have any trouble finding tiny RSS/XML gif icons:
>
> <a
> href="http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&imgsz=icon&q=rss&btnG=Search">http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&imgsz=icon&q=rss&btnG=Search</a>
Thanks. Maybe tomorrow.
As a reminder to those who have tuned in late,
the RSS link is:
http://www.listfilter.com/EUforum/rss.xml
Regards,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
4. Re: RSS
Changing the file type from .xml to .rss
seems to make Yahoo happy. Let me double check...
Regards,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
5. Re: RSS
Robert Craig wrote:
> Changing the file type from .xml to .rss
> seems to make Yahoo happy. Let me double check...
Yes. Yahoo no longer tries to show a preview,
but when you click the "Add" button, it immediately adds
EUforum to your customized news page.
Therefore, I'm going to change the URL for the
RSS feed to:
http://www.listfilter.com/EUforum/messages.rss
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Please update this URL in your RSS readers.
Regards,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
6. Re: RSS
I would also encourage to add a line to the header of the index page of the
Euphoria website.
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="EUforum"
href="http://www.listfilter.com/EUforum/messages.rss">
Some browsers (inc. Opera, Safari(?)) allows to add RSS feeds with a single
click with this reference.
Regards,
Salix
7. Re: RSS
Correctly it should have been:
"I would also encourage to add a line to the header of the index page of the
Euphoria website.
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="EUforum"
href="http://www.listfilter.com/EUforum/messages.rss">
Some browsers (inc. Opera, Safari(?)) allows to add RSS feeds with a single
click with this reference."
Regards,
Salix
8. Re: RSS
Robert Craig wrote:
>Therefore, I'm going to change the URL for the
>RSS feed to:
>
> http://www.listfilter.com/EUforum/messages.rss
I went to my Yahoo page, and added the above on the "Add RSS by URL"
page.
After a page that says "Get EUforum on My Yahoo!", I click "Add to My
Yahoo!", and I get a page that says:
"We couldn't find the RSS file you asked for
http://www.listfilter.com/EUforum/messages.rss"
Interestingly, it works fine on my new Google home page. It worked
fine yesterday there also. Of course, I had to change it on Google
this morning.
Cool. 
9. Re: RSS
Ed Davis wrote:
> Robert Craig wrote:
> >Therefore, I'm going to change the URL for the
> >RSS feed to:
> >
> > <a
> > href="http://www.listfilter.com/EUforum/messages.rss">http://www.listfilter.com/EUforum/messages.rss</a>
>
> I went to my Yahoo page, and added the above on the "Add RSS by URL"
> page.
>
> After a page that says "Get EUforum on My Yahoo!", I click "Add to My
> Yahoo!", and I get a page that says:
>
> "We couldn't find the RSS file you asked for
> <a
> href="http://www.listfilter.com/EUforum/messages.rss">http://www.listfilter.com/EUforum/messages.rss</a>"
>
> Interestingly, it works fine on my new Google home page. It worked
> fine yesterday there also. Of course, I had to change it on Google
> this morning.
OK, I deleted EUforum from my Yahoo news page,
then tried to add it again using messages.rss.
It gave me the "We couldn't find..." message.
So then I copied messages.rss into messages2.rss,
and tried using that. It worked fine.
I think there must be some strange caching problem
on Yahoo. Maybe at a low level, some code thinks
it "knows" that the file doesn't exist, and doesn't
even try retrieving it (though somehow the "preview" works).
When given a brand new file name, it actually tries to get it.
On the other hand, I tried a couple of other rss files from
other sites, and they seemed ok.
Regards,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
