RSS Feed

[Corabar Steve]

So what is RSS feed? Sounds like an agricultural supply to me

[Fresh]

simplistic terms it like an email notification of things added to a site, they automatically get sent them (when you subscribe) and then you can quickly see if there are things posted you want to see more of .... rather than keep refreshing the website - new posts

[Corabar Steve]

I understand that a lot better than how Angela explained it to me

[colinm345]

I understand that a lot better than how Angela explained it to me

Just you wait till Angela reads that post,then you will be in trouble:teeth:


RSS is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites, including major news sites like Wired, news-oriented community sites like Slashdot, and personal weblogs. But it's not just for news. Pretty much anything that can be broken down into discrete items can be syndicated via RSS: the "recent changes" page of a wiki, a changelog of CVS checkins, even the revision history of a book. Once information about each item is in RSS format, an RSS-aware program can check the feed for changes and react to the changes in an appropriate way.

RSS-aware programs called news aggregators are popular in the weblogging community. Many weblogs make content available in RSS. A news aggregator can help you keep up with all your favorite weblogs by checking their RSS feeds and displaying new items from each of them.

A Brief History

But coders beware. The name "RSS" is an umbrella term for a format that spans several different versions of at least two different (but parallel) formats. The original RSS, version 0.90, was designed by Netscape as a format for building portals of headlines to mainstream news sites. It was deemed overly complex for its goals; a simpler version, 0.91, was proposed and subsequently dropped when Netscape lost interest in the portal-making business. But 0.91 was picked up by another vendor, UserLand Software, which intended to use it as the basis of its weblogging products and other web-based writing software.

In the meantime, a third, non-commercial group split off and designed a new format based on what they perceived as the original guiding principles of RSS 0.90 (before it got simplified into 0.91). This format, which is based on RDF, is called RSS 1.0. But UserLand was not involved in designing this new format, and, as an advocate of simplifying 0.90, it was not happy when RSS 1.0 was announced. Instead of accepting RSS 1.0, UserLand continued to evolve the 0.9x branch, through versions 0.92, 0.93, 0.94, and finally 2.0.

[Corabar Steve]

OK so what does it stand for? :teeth:

[Solitaire Events Ltd]

OK so what does it stand for? :teeth:

Really Simple Syndication :teeth:

[Fresh]

sommat syndication ...... i think it is Really Simple Syndication ... could be wrong though

[Fresh]

Really Simple Syndication :teeth:

The internet is such a wonderful tool at times :teeth:

[Wolfie]

if you look on the MDD homepage there is a box with BBC news headlines.. that is an RSS feed in action.

you can have all sorts, Simple things such as weather forecasts on your site so people know if it's raining in Australia or even really complex feeds such as automatic update alerts for mobile phone text messages or the emails you are recieving.

I used to have a really good one that listed & automatically updated the top 10 singles each week & had that on my site.. I got a bit fed up with though so removed it.

[Solitaire Events Ltd]

The internet is such a wonderful tool at times :teeth:

Nah, used it for a quiz question before - I just didn't know what it actually was :embarasse