Re: How easy is RSS fed content integrated?

draafal wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> Can somebody answer a few question I have about RSS?
> 
> 
> 1) How much work is involved for webmasters to integrated the RSS- 
> code in their page, and have the content feed displayed within a 
> page-area of defined dimensions (width and height)?

Hardly any.

> 
> 2) Is having external content integrated within their webpages just a
> matter of cutting and pasting the XML-code of the RSS file in their
> back-end? Or is there some development involved for webmasters to be
> able to do this (and have RSS feeds on their site?) In that case:

There's no development required; there are loads of sites that will
generate the requisite Javascript fragment for you.
> 
> 3) How much work is involved? Is this easy code (html or script?), 
> and are there templates or guides available?

Easy script. Google for "Javascript RSS". Youy should find what you want
in the first page of results.
> 
> 4) Would it be feasible to send webmasters RSS code, together with 
> the code to equip their web-pages as a `RSS fed content aggregator'?

Yes.

> 
> 5) How many websites are really geared up to have RSS feeds? Or are 
> we only talking about a hand-full of portals?

Not a handful, but not that many. But you don't need to be "geared up" -
it's not hard.
> 
> 6) To date we are using iframes to syndicate our content. What is the
> difference? What advantages does RSS have for webmasters? (I know RSS
> has advantages to site-users, but this is another matter)

IFRAME is crap, because it's Microsoft only. Internet Explorer is on its
last legs, and IE-specific features are fucked up. IFRAME is also a
serious security problem, and my browsers don't permit that tag. Don't
use it.

-- 
Jack.


 
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