22 February 2007

Strap on the Feedbag

The newest addition to the toys page is feedMachine, a one-two punch of JavaScript goodness that makes dealing with feeds a little more fun.

The mojo behind the scenes is actually two objects; the first, WarRocketAjax, does an Ajax request to whatever URL it is given. It does a GET by default, but you can tell it to POST, if that's your kink.

WarRocketAjax is overridden by FeedMachine, which gets a feed (RSS and Atom both work) and writes it to a JS object that you can do with what you may. There's a demo file included in the zip archive.

I'm doing an increasing amount of OOP work in my JavaScript coding. Either I'm evolving, or it's time to seek professional help.

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