Feed to JavaScript - Yet Another Easy Way to Display Feeds on a Web Page
“I have mentioned many of these tools in the past. Basically, they are
very easy ways to display RSS Feeds on a page. This one happens to use
Javascript. Also, as I have mentioned before, these tools run on
third-party servers, so you are at the mercy of the resource. That
said, some allow the users to download the code to use on their own
server. Feed to Javascript allows that, which is nice. Last, for those
that love CSS, this is probably the best tool for you to use.”
[Library Stuff]
I love the idea of making it easier for people to incorporate RSS
content into their website. However, this isn't the way I would choose.
Because JavaScript is a client-side scripting language you at the mercy
of the user to have JavaScript on. Okay I know most browsers come this
way, but some users choose to turn it off and text-only browsers can't
deal with JavaScript. If you are going to do this consider using a
server-side scripting language like PHP or ASP. That way the content
renders regardless of whether the user has javascript or not.
