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What are Newstickers or RSS-Feeds:
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 ( by Mark Pilgrim).
Features of the PowerBASIC Newsticker:
- RSS v0.91 compatible
- Atom 1.0 compatible
- prefered a RSS-client with ISO 8859-1 charset support
- daily updated (4x and more)
- checked RSS feed
Updates of the PowerBASIC Newsticker:
- 17.06.2005: Fixed problem with encoding in Subject/Author fields
- 20.10.2005: Fixed problem with encoding of 3 bytes sequences
- 24.12.2006: added XML/Atom version (required for IE7)
Configuration (Browser):
You can see here an example configuration for the PowerBASIC Newsticker
from this PowerBASIC HQ BBS site. I'm using InfoRSS for testing the
RSS-Feed, an extension for Mozilla and Firefox browsers. But naturally,
you can use your own favorit RSS-client.
Configuration (Mozilla Thunderbird):
That's the example of the internal RSS support of the mail and news client
Mozilla Thunderbird.
PowerBASIC Newsgroups:
Mozilla/Firefox project:
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