RSS feed of the daily official Firefox build thread

Jacob XP · Post by **Jacob XP** » April 27th, 2004, 6:23 am

Would it be possible to somehow create a RSS feed of the daily Firefox builds created by Peter. I have no experiance in creating websites and RSS feeds so I can't create a feed myself. I use RSS to read news so I would be very happy also to have a feed to the daily updates. For me it would mean easier access to the threads.

polidobj · Post by **polidobj** » April 27th, 2004, 7:04 am

Use the feed from this blog:
http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/

Although currently Jesse is posting sporadically because of school work. Usually he's posting everyday.

Jacob XP · Post by **Jacob XP** » April 27th, 2004, 7:23 am

I know the the feed from the Burning Edge. I also want a feed to the threads on Mozillazine :-)

Post by **alanjstr** » April 27th, 2004, 9:22 am

If you just want Peter's builds, ask him to make an RSS feed on his server that points to his posts.

Peter(6) · Post by **Peter(6)** » April 27th, 2004, 9:31 am

How am I supposed to do that, explain please ?

chaosite · Post by **chaosite** » April 27th, 2004, 11:22 am

I guess some HOWTOs would be in order... RSS feeds are really cool - if you could make one it would be cool.

Anyway, RSS (RDF Site Summary, or "Really Simple Syndication" as Adver. likes to call it) is just a XML doc.

Read more:

http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/network ... s_tut.html
http://www.mnot.net/rss/tutorial/

You would probably need some webspace to put it in. You should ask Patrick Ryan (AKA pryan), he will probably give you some.

Peter(6) · Post by **Peter(6)** » April 27th, 2004, 1:01 pm

Hmm, that's weeks/month of work to figure it out.

1) I have no clue what RSS looks like or should do.
2) My knowlage of XML is limited to SVG.

resumé : HELP needed

Greg K Nicholson · Post by **Greg K Nicholson** » April 27th, 2004, 1:17 pm

Take a quick look at http://www.freewebs.com/mooquackwooftweetmeow/rss.xml
Assuming you have basic XML knowledge (from SVG) figuring RSS 2.0 out shouldn't be too much trouble - it took me about half an hour and I haven't tinkered with SVG

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Refer to the docs URL given at the top of that file to help clarify any issues; when you think you've got the hang of it, run your creation past www.feedvalidator.org. And that's it.

Peter(6) · Post by **Peter(6)** » April 27th, 2004, 1:32 pm

I'm only seeing XML sourcecode (+errormessage) there, what is the result supposed to look like ?

jayfromtaiwan · Post by **jayfromtaiwan** » April 27th, 2004, 1:36 pm

i'll try it since i'm wicked bored

Peter(6) · Post by **Peter(6)** » April 27th, 2004, 1:44 pm

what's the difference between the RSS thing and a simple html page, I really don't understand what it's all about ?

jayfromtaiwan · Post by **jayfromtaiwan** » April 27th, 2004, 1:51 pm

basically it just organizes the build threads in one list, a lot more convenient if we want to review some old build threads

Greg K Nicholson · Post by **Greg K Nicholson** » April 27th, 2004, 1:51 pm

http://www.freewebs.com/mooquackwooftweetmeow/rss.xml is supposed to be XML code - that's what RSS looks like

To make your own RSS feed, you could just change the text strings in that file using a plain text editor.
The human-presentable form of RSS is generated by an RSS reader (such as the RSS Reader Panel extension for Firefox).

Peter(6) · Post by **Peter(6)** » April 27th, 2004, 2:01 pm

But what's the advantage over a html page, or even a simple txt file ?
aha, the sidepanel thing.

Jacob XP · Post by **Jacob XP** » April 27th, 2004, 2:03 pm

Well a RSS feed can look different depending on what software you use to read the feed . I use the RSS Reader Panel to read my feeds.

Here is a screenshot of the extension: http://upit.dk/files/rss_feed.png
EDIT I have added another screenshot http://upit.dk/files/rss_feed2.png so you can see how it looks when I click on one of my feeds.

I can with one click get open the The Burning Edge Site. If there is a new build that Jesse has listed on his site I can see it in my RSS reader. This means that I quite easy can see when there is something new on the Burning Edge site or on the other feeds I have.