RSS Reader for XULRunner
May 31st, 2005
After a day or so of work here it is! A Xul based RSS Reader.
rss-xulrunner.tar.gz
The hardest part was getting this to work with xulrunner after having
written and tested it with firefox 1.0, I found quiet a few things have changed.
The one thing that had me really confused was a document.write that continually failed.
It turns out I was calling it in an unnecessary setTimeout call.
My next job as is to figure that out and create a simple test case.
Also, I got this to work nicely with escaped atom.xml files. That is blogger.com seems to format many of their atom.xml’s escaping the html tags, like
as <br>
Todd,
This has great potential. A standalone Gecko RSS reader is sorely needed. I hope you carry on with development and if you need any help with anything other than coding I’d be glad to contribute.
–
Pete.