Blog Reader Styles -- Aggreg8.mozdev Update

There's an awesome set of UI refinements/iterations being done in the RSS aggregator space, typically using desktop instead of web.  The RSS search engines & neighborhood tools morph this into web based hypertext.  Interestingly, XUL Channels mixes the web and OS interface levels with XUL, and throws in some php for caching.

I still prefer the Radio Userland popularized reverse chronological  co-mingled listing. 

Aggreg8 is a Mozilla based RSS reader.  It was a college project by P.R. and is now an open for post-turn in upgrades.

For reading several times a day,  I'd rather sample wide than deep (by blog settings).

I've been hoping to get to an exploration of the variations on panes (1,2,3), point of site access, and navigation, but in the meantime projects beckon.  I've signed on to cvs with aggreg8.net while Phil is "down under".  Aggreg8 has one killer bug, dealing with mime types -- trying out forceContentType to make text/plain into application/rdf+xml with the mask .*rdf.  No success, is there an obvious glitch? 

On other fronts, I'm thinking about persistence, a sidebar, and integration with Blozom.  We need a storage upgrade to be able to do the temporal organization.

Probably the first upgrade in blogging from me in a while will be ISO dates, so Gemal.dk can timeslice.
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Posted at NaN:NaN, Published in: Blogging

The appearence of a big horked UI at best...

"The appearence of a big horked UI at best" is what XPTK is designed to avoid in XUL applications.  While using the standard UI toolkit, enough so far for uzCardSort, is fine for starters, once you start introducing custom icons and controlling size precisely, theming can kick in, destroying your look and feel.

One of the neatest things about XPTK is the use of XBL to override or extend the base UI toolkit.

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Posted at NaN:NaN, Published in: Mozilla