Le Wed, 03 May 2006 12:11:41 +0300, M. David Peterson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit:
Right on... Good luck! The reason the widget caught my eye in the first
place was because of the lead-in suggesting its generic approach (e.g.
not
tied to any specific feed.) If I'm going to have a widget feedreader its
needs to be able to access and make available more than one feed... I'm
amazed that other widget developers find justification in developing
one-feed widgets > I can see from a markleting perspective folks might
see
the widget craze in similar light to the Google toolbar or the similar
where
they can drive people to their site by providing them direct-browser
access
to simple utilities that make browsing more enjoyable/easier to find
things. I'm amazed, however, that folks either make this type of
comparison, and therefore justify one-off feed reader widgets, or they
have
enough of a customer base that doesn't care about any other feed and
therefore justifies such a centralized focus.
With all of the above, its nice to see that someone has realized a
generic
feed-reader was MANDATORY if they want any level of mass adoption. This
is
the first one I have seen in the Opera widget library, so best of luck to
you... you deserve some definite extra-credit points for (as far as I
know
anyway) for being the first off-the-line... If nothing else, theres
reward
in such knowledge in and of itself, but I hope you win either way :)
Hello!
Yes, true. I also don't see the justification to make a single per-site
feed reader widget. It's ... uhm ... useless since (almost) nobody is
interested only in, say, slashdot.org. Having many widgets for all sites
I'm interested is *way* too much. The only advantage for such widgets are
marketing advantages.
Yes, I also see it important to have a generic feed reader.
Thank you for your appreciation. The widget does much better parsing of
Atom and RSS 2 feeds than what you see graphically. In the interface I had
no time to add all the features and things I wanted. The second version of
the widget will try to provide as many features as possible. The only
problem I have is ... not enough spare time. I have the knowledge I need
to make the Raggregator widget as powerful as dedicated feed readers
(podcasting, photocasting, feed grouping, etc). If you look into the
source code of the widget, you see I've tried to make it as clean as
possible, commented and easy to read.
As for the contest. I lost. Maybe I lost because I sent the widget too
late (not sure).
In regards to the Atom 2 problem. I have updated my blog post and sent a
message to a guy from Opera Software to update the description of the
widget. He has already answered me: problem fixed.
Thanks again.
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