Rss

[Varsity]

Simple question: will the new site feature RSS?

 

[StarMonkey]

yeah, we have a dodgy vbulletin one but i've been wanting to write a decent xml news output feed for a while now.

 

[Varsity]

In that case could you add this, to tell Firefox how to add a live bookmark for the site?

<link href="<Feed url>"  type="application/rss+xml"  />

 

[StarMonkey]

ok, will do

 

[Letters]

Soooo what is a 'live bookmark', and what does it do?

 

[Ateoto]

Its a feature in the new version of Firefox, that allows you to view news articles via RSS in a Bookmark menu. Kinda hard to explain, so here comes a screenie

Live Bookmarks Example

As you can see, I can view all the current news posts on those sites, just by hovering over the bookmark. Its fast and it rocks very hard.

FireFox Plug

 

[Varsity]

This hasn't made it.

 

[Chris D]

The RSS feed is right there on the left hand menu towards the top

http://www.halflife2.net/forums/external.php?type=rss&forumids=32

 

[Varsity]

But not the Live Bookmark implementation.

 

[Chris D]

Just download RSS bandit. Best RSS aggregator I've used and it runs in the background. It will notify you when any news is posted on any of the RSS feeds you have set up through it. It's how I get most of the news on the front page so fast.

 

[Varsity]

I''d rather have someone paste a line of code in for me and every other FF user to use than all of us having to download a seperate program. The site has the feed already, so it's a waste to not utilise a great tool like this.

 

[Chris D]

I don't understand what the problem is... The Live Bookmarks feed should work for our RSS feed.

 

[Varsity]

Not until the code in post 3 gets added to tell the browser it exists.

 

[BigWalnutZ]

Add Live Bookmarks manually

Some sites don't tell Firefox that they support Live Bookmarks, even though they actually do. If you know the URL of a site's RSS feed (url ends with .rdf or .xml), you can manually create a Live Bookmark for the site. Go to the Bookmarks menu and select 'Manage Bookmarks'. Under the 'File Menu', select 'New Live Bookmark'. Create a name for the Live Bookmark and add the URL. New articles from that site will appear as Live Bookmarks in Firefox.

amazing what ya can do by reading,....and I hate reading?!

 

[Letters]

Yeah, I've had the working RSS thang for a while now in Firefox...

 

[v1p3r]

Not until the code in post 3 gets added to tell the browser it exists.

Just go to the homepage and click the button in the bottom right corner...

 

[StarMonkey]

This should work now - sorry I didn't do it earlier but I forgot

It's added to the news page

 

[pixartist]

i have opera and i use the valve and hl2.net RSS feeds...works perfectly