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by Marc Barrot

Tuesday, May 7, 2002

Outline Rendering Survey Filling my favorite librarian's survey on RSS truncation, I thought it would be cool to issue my own Outline Rendering Survey. I did it mainly to experiment with opinionPower's service, but I know eVector is preparing a sharedOutliner tool, Paolo will probably be interested by your input. 12:02:17 PM      Google It!

RSS Truncation Revisited Jon is obviously planning some new developments in RSS truncation. For the reader, RSS truncation trades immediacy for scannability. Ultimately, the author should provide for both. And news aggregators should be prepared to work with both... It's not rocket science. I guess the place to start is with variants (blurb plus full item) in my own feed. This will also be a chance to test out what happens when I add experimental tags.[Jon's Radio] From a publisher's p.o.v., I suppose I should be publishing 2 RSS versions of this blog: a truncated one for readers who favor immediacy, and a full text one for readers who favor scannability - can this last term be found in a regular English dictionnary ? To do this efficiently, I would modify my version of the rssTruncate macro to duplicate the feeds automatically, maybe taking directions from a parameter file or outline. Let's see what Jon comes up with... From a reader's p.o.v., I'd love an RSS aggregator that let me force truncation when reading a full text feed. This can no doubt be achieved with Radio's aggregator driver architecture. This is no rocket science either. Anybody interested ? Mark Paschal maybe... 11:01:06 AM      Google It!

Yet Another Rendering Optimization I'll have to find another source of inspiration for this series of posts, the titles are getting monotonous :-) So, I've added better support for CSS in activeRenderer. As a result, activeRenderer now renders the outline in HTML with the same expansion state that was stored in the original OPML file. Nodes are not fully expanded prior to rendering any more. There's a couple of features I will probably add before switching back to transclusion. Paolo has sent note that eVector's tool update service will start life tomorrow. We'll use activeRenderer as a test, so I will probably release a first version of the activeRenderer tool later this week. After that, the tool will handle updates all on its own :-) 8:09:03 AM      Google It!