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HalfFox
A firefox halfbakery notification extention | |
alt name : bakeryzilla
Simply, this is a Mozilla Firefox extention
that reads a prescribed halfbakery filter
and looks for changes. In doing so, the
extention is able to notify the user when,
for example
A new idea is posted
One of your ideas is annotated
[farmerjohn] posts
I
figured that using the halfbakery's own
custom views might be the best way to
deliver this notifier should I find a willing
coder.
What is RSS?
http://www.xml.com/.../dive-into-xml.html
[krelnik, Mar 23 2005]
The main page as RSS
http://www.halfbake...om/index-rss091.xml
See also the RSS checkboxes at the bottom of the view configuration form for custom views. [krelnik, Mar 23 2005]
geourl extension
http://www.splinter....uk/experiments/71/
it's nice [neilp, Mar 23 2005]
[link]
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The view system can present its results as an RSS feed. Why not just feed that into an RSS reader, rather than screen-scraping the HTML view results? |
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I very much like the idea and it wouldn't be that tricky to put together in firefox, I'd see it looking a bit like geourl (see link) with a glowing croissant in the status bar when there's something new on the bakery for you to look at. |
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If you could make 1 RSS feed encompassing all of your queries then the extension could 'ping' the rss feed every X minutes to see whether the top item had changed. Once you've visited the bakery, the timer can start back at zero again. |
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Definitely have to think about the load on the poor HB server. |
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HalfFox is the cooler name. Guess why...... |
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guess the server load can be checked
with [Jutta]. Sounds like there would be
general interest in such an extention
though. |
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And then new ideas and annotations can be sent to my mobile phone**.+ |
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I'm not against this, but speaking personally anything that means I spend more time checking the halfbakery is probably not a great idea. |
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No, this means you spend less time checking the 'bakery--
notifications mean never checking when nothing's new. |
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