Pier Luigi Fiorini was asking me about the Feed Kit the other day and if he was able to make use of it. As a result I had a look over my notes and figured it was mostly ready (with the exception of an annoying crash when downloading several enclosures at once). As such I have posted it on OS Drawer. At this stage it's only been tested on Zeta... but I believe it'll work on any BeOS operating system. It's structured in much the same way as the IM Kit. The server has a requirement for CURL and the parsers (RSS and Atom at this stage) both require libxml to function.
I'll look to putting a build up on BeBits in the next few days for people to try out in a nice and easy way.
In the mean time I present a bunch of screen shots. Not all of these are current screen shots, but they'll give you the general idea of The Feed Kit
InfoPopper integration: Downloading a Feed and an Enclosure
Anchorman: The 'main' client. This is an older screen shot from when it was temporarily called TreeClient. The view on the left has changed to a BColumnListView so that it can be sorted and customised by the end user. The area with the photo in it is an embedded NetPositive window. The moment someone writes a decent browser that can be embedded I'll switch to using that. NetPositive is horribly broken for most sites.
Deskbar integration: The Deskbar client will indicate the overall status of your syndication (server isn't running, no new items, unread items). It can also be configured to show all items, unread items or current unread items in the popout menu.
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