Screenshot #2
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After some more CSS changes I'm now using my RSS aggregator to keep a track of my usual weblogs, here's a screenshot of the new layout.
Screenshot
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After some CSS tweaking I've got my XHTML output to fit the Opera hotlist panel pretty, and here's a screenshot.
As Opera doesn't display 'title` attribute information from within a hotlist panel, I included the RSS item description in an extra pop-up at the top of the window (still using nothing but CSS and XHTML, no scripting). The ^?^question mark in front of the each feed's name links to the feeds site.
A meta-refresh in the page reloads the list every 5 minutes, while the Windows XP shedular runs 'rss.php to check the feeds every 30 minutes. The refresh link, obviously, reloads the link ('rss.html).
Aggregator finished
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Just a quick post before I trot off to bed.
My RRS Aggregator is now fully working. It does everything I said it would, and would you believe I had to use cURL in the end to do the HTTP requests?
My only reservation right now is whether cURL is actually just grabbing the HTTP headers during the conditional-GET, or whether it downloads the whole document and only returns the headers, some more investigation into this is needed.
Worst part has been the CSS styling in order to integrate it into Opera as a side panel, I'll post some screenshots when it's ready.
One more thing: /me gives slashdot.org the finger
Banning me for a whole 72 hours from loading your feed because I needed to debug the fetching and parsing of your feed is bloody extreme considering the amount of people who refresh your ~16K of HTML + ~34K of images several times an hour. Shame on you.