Sounds cool Robert,
But I think Dan's requirements are just for building an RSS feed
for the customer's website. Not a client (reader) as well. These
are two different things.
It's one thing to build an RSS output feed for a website, where
that website's data is unique to itself, but once that unique data
conforms to one of the popular RSS standards, i.e., RSS 2.0, then I
think it's pointless to try and upsell the client on needing a
special Mac/Window workstation app to read the RSS data when there
are hundreds (maybe thousands now) of finished products that do
this already (free and paid, including desktop or web-based
solutions).
But of course, if this data is doing something other than what
typical RSS provides - then don't use RSS XML, and either implement
SOAP or a custom XML vocabulary, and your special desktop solution.
My observation, eh.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sat, October 28, 2006 11:21 am
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: RSS Feeds
I am not sure where your programming experience is, but it is
"fairly" easy to build an application, in RealBasic, that in one
app,
you can build a frame work, so that it is a dock application like
DING, and a system tray application in windows.
RB can handle any level of RSS and xml you can throw at it, and you
can create a great custom interface.
I just built an app, that runs in the background, and compiles for
mac and windows, which polls my servers every 15 minutes and parses
xml to check for images to upload to the server when needed. It runs
as a BG dock app on mac, and windows system tray, and also checks to
see if it is set to launch on user login.
Anyway, this will give you the ability to do a DING like app,
that is
consistent and native as universal binary on mac, and win32 app on
windows.
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On Oct 28, 2006, at 7:32 AM, Dan Stein wrote:
Yes it looks like it could be done as a Dashboard widget on Mac
side and
that would be accepted by Mac Users. What is there on the windows
side that
mot users would accept?
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From: Roland Dumas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:46:35 -0700
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: RSS Feeds
just looked at it, it's done in xerces: http://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/
Xerces
one might also look at how the macos widgets are done
On Oct 27, 2006, at 3:55 PM, Dan Stein wrote:
I have to do a quote for a new client that has in it the need for
RSS feeds..
Anywhere I can get a quick primer on this.
Also they would really like to do something like southwest's
Ding!
Not sure
it is in their budget but if anyone has an idea how that is
written
it would
be good info to have.
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