So as I was going through my ‘daily’ bookmarks, I wondered if I could use the RSS feature at my.opera.com to view the headlines at some of my favorite sites.
So I tried it with Eric Meyer’s site by using the following URL: http://my.opera.com/customize/panels/?rdf=http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/meyerweb.xml which you can see by going here or if you want to use it as a panel, EricMeyer Sidebar
That worked really well. Unfortunately another one I tried (diveintomark.org) did not work at all. It says ‘Completed Request’ but nothing ever comes up in Opera or any other browser. My guess is that the panel @ Opera is limited in its implementation and the more advanced RSS feeds make it choke.
Oh, and it did work on this series too, so you can add beyond30 as a Sidebar in Opera
(Update: RSS stands for RDF Rich Site Summary, which is an XML method of grabbing headline data from blogs)
More reading on sidebars in Opera: Day 16: Sidebars (30 days to becoming an Opera lover) Sidebars available at TNTLuoma.com
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