I’ve been fooling around with RSS a bit lately and it seems less than
totally useless to me (which says a lot for the technology). Aside from
traditional web content like news articles and blogs, it seems to me that
syndicating web mail would make for a novel use of RSS. I’d love to have a
live bookmark in FireFox for my Yahoo inbox. Each subject line could link
back to the body of the message. I’m sure Yahoo will get right on this.
This would probably make me very happy.
In other news, I made my first extension to mozilla’s search sidebar thingie (which
may need better nomenclature). It adds a simple “always on” interface to one
of my clients’ web products. To do this, all I needed was a fairly small
XML-lookin’ text file. Some vendor-specific javascript
manhandles Mozilla browsers into fetching this file and installing it.
Wanna see the file? Here’s an expurgated version of it:
Find out more at mycroft.
Sadly, the Google search bar in Apple’s Safari isn’t nearly so easily
extended. There’s no config file to change, nor javascript to facilitate this
change. It’s true that there’s acid search plugin, but
Apple should follow Mozilla’s lead on this one.
I miss MarkovBlogger. It could easily of churned out an entry as insipid
as this without my attention. Perhaps I look into getting unpaid college
interns to do this blog for me.