> > Any idea what it would take, or even if it's possible, to do this with > the music section of npr.org? >
When doing the plugin I looked at the Music page and decided to do nothing immediately as all contents is accessible through the Plugin Topics menu. In relation to mapping the Music site to the Plugin, I see two big problems: 1. No "Thin" version so extracting (i.e. screen scraping) info from the web pages is difficult and also has high maintenance. 2. The web site is complex (IMHO a mess) - there are two menu bars at the top (rock/pop/folk classical jazz ... and Discover songs Concerts Studio session ... ) and within the web page there are about 10-15 sections which can vary according to the choice on the top bars. Unlike the "thin.npr.org" where the SB3 menu is practically a mirror, the Music website is very difficult to map into a menu structure to show on an SB3. So if the "Topics" interface is inadequate suggestions are needed on how people would like access (i.e. SB3 menu structure) the "Music" contents NPR provide an XML interface to all NPR contents (like database access) so if a menu structure is defined - obtaining the content is not that difficult. The drawback of thre XML interface is that the user would have to register with NPR to get a user id (no personal detail except a e-mail address). So - suggestions for a Music menu layout ? -- bpa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51002 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
