Hi, I have to agree with you when you say that many of the prototypes here lack a practical use, and will probably not be used in anything (and I include several prototypes I have made in that category). The only real purpose of many of them is as a challenge, which is always useful, especially to improve programming skills and to generally have fun (One I particularly like is the missing words round one from "Have I Got News For You"). My last 2 prototypes have been an attempt to create something more useful. The first one being an easy way to get an RSS feed on a website using _javascript_, and the second being an RSS feed of the top news stories from a period of time (it can be found at http://backstage.min-data.co.uk/topstories/ ). I think the main reason the prototypes aren't that useful is that there is only a limited amount of data available at the moment, and you can only do so much with a limited amount of data. I am sure the backstage team are doing their best to get more stuff available to us, but they are understandably unable to get anything out quickly, as they have to get permission to have them, actually get people to make the feeds (or make them themselves?), and then tell us about them. Good luck with the project you are working on, and it would be nice to see the results. Duncan Chris Walker wrote: Hi, |
- Re: [backstage] A practical use for RSS traffic feeds Duncan Barclay
- Re: [backstage] 'feed to javascript' Andy Martin
- Re: [backstage] A practical use for RSS traffic feeds Chris Walker
- RE: [backstage] A practical use for RSS traffic fe... Stephen Miller
- Re: [backstage] A practical use for RSS traffic fe... W Luke
- Re: [backstage] A practical use for RSS traffic fe... Duncan Barclay
- Re: [backstage] A practical use for RSS traffi... Chris Walker
- Re: [backstage] A practical use for RSS traffi... Brit
- Re: [backstage] A practical use for RSS tr... Sam Critchley
- Re: [backstage] A practical use for R... Chris Walker