Today, Jack Brewster from the NewsGator support team sent me the default FeedDemon’s style modified to implement Talk Digger. If you are using FeedDemon and choose to use that new style, all the feeds’ items will have a “TalkDigger” link attached to them. If you click on that link, you will be redirected to Talk Digger and instantly start a search for that specific post.
The idea is really attractive. You are reading an article, you like it, then you need to know what other people have to say about it. Directly from your feed reader, in that case FeedDemon, you click on a single link and you see all the articles that talk about it.
How can you implement Talk Digger into your FeedDemon?
1. You download that FeedDemon style
2. You put that style file into the FeedDemon’s style folder
3. You open FeedDemon and select the new style called “TalkDigger”
4. To use it, you simply have to click on the “Talk Digger” link in the top right corner of every feed item
What it looks like?
How to implement it into your current style?
If you would like to implement Talk Digger in the style you are currently using, then you can easily do it that way:
1. Find and edit the file of the style you are currently using (it is located into the FeedDemon’s style folder)
2. Find the item template into that file ( starting with that like <xsl:template match="item"> )
3. Into that item, you can add that code to it. It will implement TalkDigger to that style.
<a href="http://www.talkdigger.com/index.php?surl= {$itemlink}">TalkDigger</a>
I hope that you will find that new Talk Digger’s trick useful. If you have any new idea of how to use Talk Digger, please leave a comment to share it with other users.
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Ivan A. Illyn
August 9, 2005 — 7:56 pm
Some Error! If i select style “TalkDigger” – i see only blank screen with error massage like this:
Line 5, Col 38: A string literal was expected, but no opening quote character was found.
I Use FeedDemon 1.5, IE 6.0 SP 1
Idea is really attractive, but check it!
Fred
August 10, 2005 — 2:28 am
Hello Mr. Illyn,
It is strange, because it worked perfectly with the demo version I downloaded on their website. However, I will re-contact Mr. Brewster to fix the problem.
I will get back to you with the solution. However, other people have a problem?
However, if I check at the problem, it seems that your software have some problems withs quotes.
the problem is here: “Trebuchet MS”
So, try to delete both quotes, and re-type them and check what happen. Tell me if it change something (this is probably a problem of inter-language quote character problem).
Salutations,
Fred
Nick Bradbury
August 10, 2005 — 8:01 am
It looks like the problem isn’t with the style, but with the way your download works. When I downloaded this style, rather than get the FDXSL I received an HTML document that said “Your browser does not support frames.”
BTW, users don’t need to download this style into a specific folder if they click the link in FeedDemon itself. FeedDemon will detect that it’s a newspaper style and ask the user whether they wish to install it.
Fred
August 10, 2005 — 10:59 am
Hi Mr. Bradbury,
Thank for your support for that little problem.
I zipped the style; that way we will be sure that the characters will remains the good ones. And I changed the download address.
That we, we are sure that everything will be perfect.
Thank,
Salutations,
Fred