IL2006 Day 2: RSS & JavaScript Cookbook: Rip, Mix, and Burn
Posted on October 24, 2006
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Paul Pival and Meredith Farkas
http://paulandmeredith.pbwiki.com - their presentation
What’s wrong with traditional subject pages?
- not often updated
- not easy to add content if you don’t know html
- no academic field is static, so perhaps a static web page isn’t the best tool for a subject guide
Dynamic content:
- lives elsewhere, but is pulled onto the page
- updated as content is updated elsewhere
JavaScript:
- used to write functions for HTML pages that one could not do with HTML alone
- many sites offer bits of JavaScript code to allow you to do cool stuff
What can you do with RSS on a subject page?
- lots of cool stuff…
Check out feed2js - a few other similar services, too - turns RSS feeds into javascript… wow.
Seattle Public - rss in their catalog…
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