An AJAX RSS reader
Posted : Sunday April 5th, 2009

I threw together a little AJAX based RSS reader. You can see it at here.

My idea when doing this was that I wanted to make a simple reader that worked the same in different browsers. The default reader built in to browsers all do some very different things and I find that a bit annoying. My reader is loosely based on the IE reader which I find at least has the most functionality (more than FireFox or Opera anyway).

Some next steps with this would be

1. Fancy up the CSS. It all looks very simple right now but the L&F could be improved easily enough
2. Add server support for piping other feeds through. Ideally you could just type in the URL for a feed and this page would display it. There's a problem with that though because AJAX (rightly) restricts you to only talking to URLS from the same domain as the page. So I would need to make a special server-side script that will read the URL contents for you and pass it back to the page.

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ajax  reader  RSS 

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Internet  Personal 

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