[Web4lib] rss on web page

[Quinn, Todd]

The best RSS feed "reader" I have found is Grazr - www.grazr.com.  It is
OPML based and very easy to use and control.  I try Feed2JS and
www.p3k.org, but Grazr is better.  

Todd

Todd Quinn
Assistant Professor
Instruction/Reference Librarian
Dakota State University
Madison, SD
todd.quinn at dsu.edu

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Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:33:51 -0800
From: Ann Hubble <ahubble at ucsc.edu>
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Including RSSon a webpage
To: Ken Varnum <Ken.Varnum at tufts.edu>, web4lib at webjunction.org
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I tested Feed2JS to host and diplay an RSS feed  on one of our 
library subject web pages. It was extremely easy to do and loved it 
at first. But the feed was near the top of the web page and I 
discovered the web page wouldn't completely load at times when the 
link broke or possibly the server not up. Since my goal was to put 
our latest news items from a blog onto our top library home page, the 
number of times Feed2JS failed (and thus anything below the feed on 
the web page wouldn't load) unacceptable.

I'm going to try again, but using feedsplitter, as we are now testing 
that on our library server. Hope it is more reliable.

-Ann

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