the-inbetween.com

Individual Entry

This is an archived post. If you came directly to this post, you may want to check all recent posts.

Mimir

What ever happened to the RSS Reader that I said I'd make?

It is alive and already proving itself quite useful! The preliminary version is up at dev.the-inbetween.com/Feeds. That was the first look I was going for, but after some tweaking I'm starting to favour the alternate look. It's more compact and efficient, and with some more compacting it might make a good Firebird sidebar. The floating descriptions are powered by kryogenix's nice titles script. It's dhtmlicious!

There's still some bugs, some features still need to be added, and a lot of optimization is required, but the early results are positive and I'm hoping that will be my motivation to get it completed.

As for the name: Mimir. I like the etymology of it, but I'm undecided as to whether the actual word is good. Something about saying "mee'-mir" doesn't sit right. It's a smidge too "tinny." A "woody" word would be more apt.

December 02, 2003. Site.

Comments (2)

I've actually gone back to *not* loading my /feeds/ display into the sidebar, after having become so used to tab-opening dozens of weblogs at once.

I wonder, do many people generally check out updated feeds by clicking each individual new item? Since I don't like viewing single entries out of their weblog context, I tend to only click the main weblog links.

December 2, 2003 10:19 AM. Posted by: milov.

I guess it depends on what the title is and what the other items are. If there's only one new item on a site for some days, then I'd check the individual entry. If there's a half-dozen new posts, I'd check the site.

December 3, 2003 01:06 AM. Posted by: nowak.

Comments closed on archived entries.
Check the main index for new stuff OK!

© Mike Nowak, 1999-2006 / xhtml 1.1, css / rss / Powered by movable type.