Thanks for your reply. I'm not familar with 'run feed through yahoo pipes' but I will look into that.
I'm aware that sometimes stories are updated, but I can assure you that the major news services routinely change the timestamps without any update. It appears to be automated. Rather than a bug, I assume this is done to support various 'dumb' feed readers. I believe a gadget with this capability, perhaps as an option, would be useful and well-received. And so my question remains... could the Mark as Read function be modified by a gadget developer to accomplish this, or would it require a mod to the Google API? I don't know enough about this to fathom a guess. BTW, I'm not so sure the Mark as Read function uses timestamps. I often see stories repeat (after being marked as read), but with the original timestamp. This is either a separate issue or bug, or the Mark as Read function is looking at some other field (perhaps a story serial number?). Regardless, a headline filter would resolve this issue as well, except when the headline is changed, which usually indicates a major story revision. On Jul 7, 12:24 am, bickerdyke <[email protected]> wrote: > The timestamp should only change when something in the story changes > too, like an update or something. And then setting it to "unread" is > desired behaviour. So it's a bug in the feed. > > You could try run the feed through yahoo pipes and filter out > duplicate posts. > > Thats what Web2.0 is for :-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iGoogle Developer Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
