Hi John,
Not sure if i have understood it correctly. Are you saying there should be a BrowserPlus service which when given a RSS server site gets the feed from it and gives you ability to read through and parse the feed ? Isnt this which can be achieved by a javascript library ? What kind of desktop intergration would you get by providing such service ?
Correct me if i understood your post wrongly...
- Uday.
I agree with Uday that this one may be of questionable utility given it's not really a hard problem to solve with existing web technologies, but I'm a little curious about how to handle the cross domain issues when attaining XML feeds on the client.
That said, a simple little ruby script to pull a feed cross domain, parse it up, and return results as javascript objects would be easy to write.
The benefits would perhaps simpler client use, secure cross domain acquisition of feeds, and would handle the no-proxy requirement. The
secure cross domain part, simply because the service would not send any headers containing potentially sensitive information, and would verify syntactically correct RSS outside of the reach of javascript. Largely we could follow Crockfords suggestions for secure cross domain JSON from the jsonrequest spec.
How hacky are you feeling? If you want I could walk you through the steps to start writing the ruby to do this. :Dlloyd
