Grazing The Collective Wisdom: Last 35 Posts

vincemcman on "google search bar"

vincemcman — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:57:35 +0000

(9hours later) i have manage with an XML file to almost do what i want, search in google, youtube, or any website creating RSS out of the "query".

But what i really want is just to have a search bar (ie:google) that will open in a new window with my search request.
In html : <form <a HREF action="http://www.google.com/search?q=" method="get" target="_blank">

Here's the XML code i find on grazr scripting tutorial, can it be done by changing the grazr:formresult or grazr:formtemplate part... or any other way :) ?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <opml version="2.0" xmlns:grazr="http://docs.grazr.com/script/spec/1.0"> <head> <title>Video Search</title> </head> <body> <grazr:form name="videoform"> Video Search <input type="text" name="query" /> <input type="submit" value="Enter" /> </grazr:form> <grazr:formtemplate name="videoform" file="http://www.youtube.com/rss/tag/%query%.rss" /> <grazr:formresult text="YouTube Videos:" name="videoform" /> </body> </opml>

vincemcman on "google search bar"

vincemcman — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:33:39 +0000

Hi, i'm trying to add a search bar (by adding code in text option (same way as adding a link <a href="http://www.link.com">link.com</a>)) but i cant make it work

<form <a HREF action="http://www.google.com/search?q=" method="get" target="_blank"> <a HREF="http://www.google.com/"> <img src="http://fr.newswiretoday.com/outside/web-google_logo.gif"/> <input type="submit" value="Search" /> <input name="q" type="text" size="30" /> </form>

It looks nice... but do not work
Have any idea of what i am doing wrong, or any other way i could do this ?
ps. sorry for my bad english

mikepk on "Trouble with 3-pane"

mikepk — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:46:32 +0000

A fix is in place to allow twitter items to expand in three pane.

mikepk on "Trouble with 3-pane"

mikepk — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:00:50 +0000

Oy, Amy you're right. It's us trying to be too smart again. We decided that since Twitter's feeds were kind of brain dead, the title of the items being exactly the same as the content, that we would prevent the display of the content for those items. I guess we never tested that assumption with 3-pane view. I'll see about putting in an exception.

Adamg on "Bitty browser functionalities within Grazr"

Adamg — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:40:25 +0000

We want to focus on viewing feeds exclusively. Grazr already does a tremendous number of things. Trying to add full HTML browsing capability would conflict with the many special functions available for feed items.

Adamg on "Grazr and refresh rates"

Adamg — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:38:09 +0000

We don't have an official refresh rate, but we try to refresh all feeds in a stream every 30-60 minutes.

amyloo on "Trouble with 3-pane"

amyloo — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:26:49 +0000

When I click on an item in the upper right pane of a 3-pane widget, shouldn't the item appear in the lower right? Does this need some additional setting or something that I'm missing?

http://static.grazr.com/gzpanel.html?view=3p&prefs=false&theme=home_silver&font=Verdana&file=http://grazr.com/data/amyloo/NewsGang_Members_on_Twitter

Thanks.

Pentreiz on "Grazr and refresh rates"

Pentreiz — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 03:20:48 +0000

I am planning to use Grazr in cases where the freshness of data is critical. (An emergency warning for isntance ).

What can we expect in terms of the frequency by which Grazr sends its pings ?

Thanks,

Michel

Pentreiz on "Bitty browser functionalities within Grazr"

Pentreiz — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 03:12:24 +0000

Hello,

The beauty of Grazr when working with feeds is the way feeds are displayed with the Grazr.
When working with non-feed links ( i.e basic urls ), the reader is directed outside of the Grazr.

Assuming here the benefit of keeping one's reader as long as possible on one's web site, it could prove useful to add within the Grazr widget, the Bitty browser functionality for non-xml based url.

Any thoughts on this ?

Thanks,

Michel

Pentreiz on "Grazr in different languages"

Pentreiz — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 03:00:22 +0000

Hello,

The french language would be useful too. I love your product, and as a French native wold be willing to help in this endeavour.

I remember the good folks at Zoho bringing their community together and... in a short amount of time their software/web-service was localized in dozens of languages.

Best,

Michel

Pentreiz on "widget and password protected Grazr"

Pentreiz — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:13:02 +0000

Thanks. Fabulous.

In fact I became a paid client yesterday night. I have been using Grazr for some time and love it. The new functionnalities are worth every cent.

http://www.i35wbridgelive.com/Minnesota-Weather-alerts.html

Thanks again,

Michel

Adamg on "widget and password protected Grazr"

Adamg — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:11:02 +0000

Michel:

Yes. The paid version of Grazr allows you to password protect any reading list. These lists can be used in a widget on any Web page. People who have not entered the password will see the widget, but won't be able to view the reading list information in the widget until they enter the password.

Pentreiz on "widget and password protected Grazr"

Pentreiz — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:54:26 +0000

Hello,

Can a widget be served on a password protected grazr ?

Thanks.

Michel

PS : Great product ! Thank you much.

neilm2 on "Setting default feed in 3-pane view"

neilm2 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:43:11 +0000

Thanks, mikepk!

That works great.

brianfrench on "Remove all the headers"

brianfrench — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 07:04:21 +0000

I just want a simple feed - without the Yahoo or Google logos as bullets, and with out the headers.
How do I do this - Grazr is definitely the best embeddable rss tool Ive found

mikepk on "convert URL list to OPML"

mikepk — Sat, 31 May 2008 02:59:13 +0000

Thanks Valeria, that's a good link. We also have some links to general feed/opml tools as well (not sure if this ones in there, I'll check).

We have a link to one that's interesting.

http://grazr.com/tools/opml-generator-unold-opmlgen.html

mikepk on "Default Sidebar URL broken"

mikepk — Sat, 31 May 2008 02:55:38 +0000

figital, I'll check on this but it should work the way you describe. Clicking the little sidebar image on any widget should set your sidebar to load that file on opening. If you click the dropdown that says "Sample Feeds" what do you see? What browser (Mozilla variant)/OS are you using?

mikepk on "Setting default feed in 3-pane view"

mikepk — Sat, 31 May 2008 02:52:44 +0000

Sorry, the embed code got garbled by that last post. The key is the addition of exp=1 to the argument strings in the embed code. Here's an example embed code (from your page) with the exp option added.

<div style="height:600px;width:700px;"><a href="http://grazr.com/read?exp=1&view=o&file=http://grazr.com/data/neilm2/New_Reading_List" ><img alt="Grazr" src="http://static.grazr.com/images/grazrbadge.png" style="border:none"></a><script defer="defer" type="text/javascript" src="http://static.grazr.com/gzloader.js?exp=1&view=3p&file=http://grazr.com/data/neilm2/New_Reading_List"></script></div>

mikepk on "Setting default feed in 3-pane view"

mikepk — Sat, 31 May 2008 02:47:15 +0000

Hi nelim,

There is an option in the widget to have it autoexpand particular feeds. This will likely do what you need. Just add exp=1 to the widget arguments in the embed code and it will auto-expand the first node when loading.

(embed code in follow-up post)

Valeria on "convert URL list to OPML"

Valeria — Fri, 30 May 2008 13:16:27 +0000

Maybe this artile is helpful!

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=463034

figital on "Default Sidebar URL broken"

figital — Thu, 29 May 2008 01:27:02 +0000

The default URL in the sidebar doesn't work:
http://share.opml.org/opml/top100.opml

seems to respond as:
/stories/2008/01/23/shareopmlorgRetired.htmlopml/top100.opml

When I click the gzsidebar.png image to install the sidebar I expected that the currently loaded OPML URL would be used as the "homepage", instead I get the non working top 100 feed.

neilm2 on "Setting default feed in 3-pane view"

neilm2 — Sat, 24 May 2008 23:18:49 +0000

Is there a variable to set a default feed in Grazr's 3-pane view using the standard widget?

If you look at my widget here, you'll see the 2nd pane says "(No feed selected"). I'd like to have the widget default to the first feed in my list.

http://www.pizzaburning.com/rss/rssgrazr.html

Any ideas?

mikepk on "Displaying a feed on an iPhone optimized website"

mikepk — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:26:37 +0000

Cliffm,

Unfortunately there's no way to embed an iphone optimized Grazr widget inside of another iphone optimized page. The main problem is, as you noticed, the iphone automatically eliminates scrollbars on embedded widgets (of any kind). This means for the nice iphone-like one finger scrolling to work, the widget has to be on it's own page.

There is a side note though, even though the iphone hides the scrollbars, the widget (or any other iframe) can still be scrolled by using a *TWO* finger scrolling gesture (put two fingers on the screen in parallel and slide) inside the widget. This is a little known iphone behavior and applies to all iframes, including embedded grazr widgets. The problem is that few people know about this iphone behavior and it feels very unnatural compared to the one finger iphone-flick scrolling which is why we created the iphone optimized version.

Cliffm on "Displaying a feed on an iPhone optimized website"

Cliffm — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:10:11 +0000

Hello peoples,

I recently discovered Grazr and would like to use it to display a feed on an iPhone optimized website. I created a widget and used the provided script code on my site. It displays the feed with one big problem... the scroll bar on the right does not display, so you cannot scroll down to view all of the feed. If I click on 'Share' and then 'iPhone' a new browser window appears with the feed properly formatted for the iPhone, but this causes a navigation away from my website. Is it possible to get the iPhone formatted code, so I can embed it on my website without people having to navigate away to a new browser window.

Your help and comments are very much appreciated!

natidea on "CSS for Grazr"

natidea — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:06:26 +0000

I cannot figure out how to create a custom CSS file. Could someone direct me to more information on this.

Adamg on "convert URL list to OPML"

Adamg — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:26:00 +0000

No. We don't have an import for a list of multiple URLs. I'm not aware of a tool that converts a list of page URLs into the corresponding OPML list of feeds.

shanta on "convert URL list to OPML"

shanta — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:21:54 +0000

Thanks Adam. But is there a way to import the entire list or urls at once?

Adamg on "convert URL list to OPML"

Adamg — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 10:09:49 +0000

The feed icon in the Editor toolbar will automatically discover the feed for any Web page URL and add it to the reading list. To use this you need to start the editor by clicking Create in the top menu. Then click the Feed icon in the toolbar and paste in a URL. The feed for that page will be added.

Adamg on "Sorting of Feeds in folders"

Adamg — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 10:07:07 +0000

Sorry, but there is no automatic sorting feature in the editor.

shanta on "convert URL list to OPML"

shanta — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:57:40 +0000

I have a long list of website URLs (each of which have RSS feeds) from which I would like to create an OPML file for a Grazr widget. Now, I know there are various OPML builders, but these require a list of RSS feeds, which I don't have. Does anyone have any suggestions that don't involved painstakingly visiting each website?

fataltech on "Sorting of Feeds in folders"

fataltech — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:18:03 +0000

I have a very large Grazr with over 100 entries but I need to order them aplphanumerically within certain folders and NOT within others - is this possible without having to do manually e.g. a "sort by name" type function?

Adamg on "Incorrect interpretation of feedburner feed"

Adamg — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:01:35 +0000

This is working now. Thanks for letting us know. A code change last weekend broke some Atom feeds. If you delete the three feeds in the TopVCblog folder and add them again, they should show up as feeds.

fataltech on "Incorrect interpretation of feedburner feed"

fataltech — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:42:37 +0000

Sorry for not adding more info at outset... here's my Grazr reading list http://grazr.com/data/fataltech/c1f2df21 with the above feed showing as a URL. List was created by importing an OPML. Then I attempted to load the feed in two separate ways - copying the actual feed using data button/feature and secondly by dragging and dropping the RSS feed from the blog page. Both of these approaches worked with the other blog feeds in the topvcblog folder shown but as you can see a couple of them just show as page URLs. Must be finger problems on my part :-(

Adamg on "Incorrect interpretation of feedburner feed"

Adamg — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:30:20 +0000

I've looked at http://feeds.feedburner.com/VentureIntelligenceIndia a couple of different ways on the site, and it always seems to load correctly. Can you give us the URL of a page where it is not loading correctly? Can describe the steps you used that resulted in it loading incorrectly? Any info would help.

fataltech on "Incorrect interpretation of feedburner feed"

fataltech — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:58:54 +0000

Some - not all - feedburner feeds are importing as URLs rather than RSS. Subscribes fine in GoogleReader e.g. http://feeds.feedburner.com/VentureIntelligenceIndia - nothing obvious in the atmom xml - ideas, suggestions please?